Speaking from a non-Christian perspective, I think that was a very very good post from A4T's thread. Thank you for sharing, I enjoyed it.
"Yep. And when a man has no legs, he doesn't speak despairingly of a crutch. If a man is starving in a desert, he isn't too proud to take a morsel of bread he finds on the ground. When one is stranded in an ocean with sharks all around, he doesn't scoff at a life preserver though it doesn't look like much in itself.
The pride of man is a horrible thing. To turn up his nose at a Gift from God because it is free is the height of foolishness. Many a man has to be brought to his knees before he finds this out."