Francis Schaeffer: Much can come from little if the little is truly consecrated to God.

Though we are limited and weak in talent, physical energy, and psychological strength, we are not less than a stick of wood. But as the rod of Moses had to become the rod of God, so that which is me must become the me of God. Then I can become useful in God’s hands. The Scripture emphasizes that much can come from little if the little is truly consecrated to God. There are no little people and no big people in the true spiritual sense, but only consecrated and unconsecrated people…

We must remember throughout our lives in God’s sight there are no little people and no little places. Only one thing is important: to be consecrated persons in God’s place for us, at each moment. Those who think of themselves as little people in little places, if committed to Christ and having His Lordship in the whole of life, may, by God’s grace, change the flow of our generation.

— Francis Schaeffer

Cited from No Little People (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1974), 25, 32.

Very often the certain people and stations in life are perceived as insignificant. Small potatoes. But God sees things differently. Regardless of the person or their place in society, they still have worth to God. God even accomplishes great things through lowly people.

Francis A. Schaeffer (January 30, 1912 – May 15, 1984) was an pastor, lecturer, and authort, who founded the study center and Christian community L’Abri Fellowship. A profound Christian thinker and apologist, Schaeffer understood the despair of humanity severed from God, but the worlds constructed by those apart from God can never satisfy them with what they need the most, and only Christ can heal the divide between God and humankind. Schaeffer published numerous works including The God Who is There, Escape from Reason, and He is There and He is Not Silent.