If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior.

We have heard of many people who trusted God too little, but have you ever heard of anyone who trusted Him too much?

The harvest here is indeed great, and the laborers are few and imperfectly fitted, without much grace, for such a work. And yet grace can make a few feeble instruments the means of accomplishing great things - things greater even than we can conceive.

Dream a dream so big that unless God intervenes it will fail.

Carrying the cross does mean following in Jesus' footsteps. And in His footsteps are rejection, brokenheartedness, persecution and death. There are not two Christs - an easy going one for easy going Christians, and a suffering one for exceptional believers. There is only one Christ. Are we willing to follow His lead?

Satan may build a hedge about us and fence us in and hinder our movements, but he cannot roof us in and prevent our looking up.

But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.