A pen does not know what it is going to write.
In the same way, when God takes someone into His hands
in order to begin some work of God in the Church,
that person does not know what he or she will have to do.
He or she is an instrument.
And generally all God’s instruments are characterized
by this quality: littleness, weakness….
“... so that no human being might boast in the presence of God."

And while the instrument moves in the hands of God,
He forms it with thousands and thousands of painful
and joyful devices.
In this way He makes it more and more suited
to the task it must carry out,
and it can say with competence: I am nothing, God is everything.

Chiara Lubich