Profit from Desolation

From Austin Farrar's book, A Faith of Our Own (1960):

It is by these desolating experiences that God teaches us to trust him, not ourselves.  The more emptied out we are, the more hope there is of our learning to be Christians.  Now is the very moment - there will never be a better - for us to put our trust in the God who makes something from nothing, who raises the dead.   
(p. 114, img source: The Next C.S. Lewis? A Note on Austin Farrer » Transpositions )