"God knows your capacity better than you do; entreat him to choose your inheritance for you. If the flowers were to revolt against the gardener, and each one should select its own soil, most of them would pine and die through their unsuitable position. But he who has studied their nature knows that this flower needs shade and damp; and another needs sunlight and a light soil; and so the gardener puts his plants where they are most likely to flourish. God does the same with us. He has made some to be kings, thought few of those plants flourish much. He has made many to be poor, and the soil of poverty, though damp and cold, has produced many a glorious harvest for the great Reaper. The Lord has set some in places of peril, places from which they would gladly escape, but they are preserved by his hand. He has planted many others in the quiet shade of obscurity, and they blossom to the praise of the great Husbandman."

Charles Haddon Spurgeon