Clinton on Crisis and Leadership Development

A crisis is a time of increased pressure. Theses situations are often used by God to test a leader and to teach him dependence on God.eg. A leader faces a major crisis. The leader sees that his only hope is in God. He experiences God in a new way in the crisis. He sees God as the One who can and does meet him in this major experience of life. Not only does God meet the leader in the situation but He does so with a solution that is tailor-made for the leader. The overall effect is a more confident leader. It provides a landmark experience that will affect this person's ability to lead others. His followers in turn sense a new spiritual authoirty in him. Learning lessons in these experiences is the goal. Spiritual authority is a most important by-product.

Augustine on Trials

For the most part, the human mind cannot attain to self-knowledge otherwise than by making trial of its powers through temptation, by some kind of experimental and not merely verbal self-interrogation.