" When you hear this you might say, 'Yes, I can see, but my faith isn't big enough.' However, this is not the time to reflect on your faith. You should look at the Lord.
Once I was waiting at a very primitive bridge in New Zealand. We were traveling by car, but we didn't dare to cross. First, one of the men in the car went to investigate if the bridge was strong enough. It appeared to be strong enough, even though it was very primitive and we crossed without a problem. This man was not investigating our trust in the bridge.
Very often, we tend to look a our faith, and we know our big and strong, or weak and small. BUt we shouldn't investigate our faith; we should investigate the Bridge. We should not rely on ourselves, but on Him. And when we look to Jesus, we know that He is strong."- Corrie ten Boom, I Stand at the Door and Knock.


"How then to have our faith increased? Only by thinking of all that Jesus is, and all He is for us: His life, His death, His work, He Himself as revealed to us in the Word, to be the subject of our constant thoughts. Not a striving to have faith, or to increase our faith, but a looking off the the Faithful One, seems all we need, a resting in the Loved One entirely, for time and for eternity."- John McCarthy in a letter to Hudson Taylor


"Faith, I now see, is the 'substance of things hoped for,' and mere shadow. It is not less than sight, but more. Sight only shows the outward form of things; faith gives the substance. You can rest on substance, feed on substance. Christ dwelling in the heart by faith (ie His word of promise credited) is power indeed, is life indeed. And Christ and sin will not dwell together, nor can we have His presence with love of the world, or carefulness about many things."


"'if we believe, He abideth faithful.' I looked to Jesus and saw (and when I saw, oh how the joy flowed!) that He had said, 'I will never leave you or forsake you!' Ah, there is rest! I thought, I have striven in vain to rest in Him. I'll strive no more, For has He not promised to abide with me never to leave me, never to fail me?"


" As I thought of the vine and the branches what light the blessed Spirit poured into my soul! How great seemed my mistake in having wished to get the fullness out of Him. I saw now only that Jesus would never leave me, but that I was a member of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. The vine, I now see, is not the root merely, but all- root, stem, branches, twigs, leaves, flowers, fruit: And Jesus is not only that: He is oil and sunshine, air and showers and ten thousand time more than we have ever dreamed, wished for or needed. Oh, the joy of this truth!"


"It is a wonderful thing to be really one with a risen and exalted Savior; to be a member of Christ! thing what is involves...
The sweetest part, if one may speak or one part being sweeter than another, is the rest which full identification with christ brings. I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize this: for He, I know if able to carry out His will, and His will is mine"


- J Hudson Taylor


"Our Lord makes a disciple His own possession, He becomes responsible for Him. 'Ye shall be my witnesses unto Me.' The Spirit that comes in is not doing anything for Jesus, but of being a perfect delight to Him. The secret of the missionary is- I am His and He is carrying out His enterprises through me.
Be entirely His."
- Oswald Chambers