God cleans His fish after He catches them. The fish don't clean themselves then get caught. - Lane Chaplin

Where God guides he provides.  He is responsible for our upkeep if we follow his directions.  He is not responsible for expenses not on his schedule.- Vance Havner

One of the greatest favors bestowed on the soul transiently
in this life is to enable it to see so distinctly and to feel
so profoundly that it cannot comprehend God at all. These souls
are herein somewhat like the saints in heaven, where they who
know Him most perfectly perceive most clearly that He is
infinitely incomprehensible; for those who have the less clear
vision do not perceive so clearly as do these others how
greatly He transcends their vision.- St. John of the Cross (1542-1591), The Spiritual Canticle, VII.9

The standard of the world, and the standard of the Lord Jesus, are indeed widely different. They are more than different. They are flatly contradictory one to the other. Among the children of this world, he is thought the greatest man who has most land, most money, most servants, most rank, and most earthly power. Among the children of God, he is reckoned the greatest who does most to promote the spiritual and temporal happiness of his fellow-creatures. True greatness consists not in receiving, but in giving - not in selfish absorption of good things, but in imparting good to others - not in being served, but in serving - not in sitting still and being ministered to, but in going about and ministering to others.
~ J.C. Ryle Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew, [Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1986], 256.

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the
conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a
certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can
never reach.-William Barclay (1907-1978), The Gospel of John, v. 2, Westminster John Knox Press, 2001, p. 322