"Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into
this life. I don't see many of "the brightest and the best" among you,
not many influential, not many from high-society families. Isn't it
obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture
overlooks and exploits and abuses, chose these "nobodies" to expose the
hollow pretensions of the "somebodies"? That makes it quite clear that
none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. Everything
that we have—right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh
start—comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. That's why we have the
saying, "If you're going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God."
I Corinthians 1:27-31 The Message
