"If you have faith as small as a mustard seed" (v. 6). Then as now, Christians become aware of the inadequacy of their faith when they are made responsible for leading others. As leaders, they face challenges greater than their faith. They hope for great faith, certainly greater faith than their followers. Surprisingly, Jesus does not require superior spiritual endowments of Christian leaders, even apostles, nor does he offer them such. He promises, rather, to be present in the smallness of their faith. A mustard seed is so small that, held in the palm of one's hand, it appears as a speck of dust, barely visible. The image of the mustard seed is another hyperbole, but the point is clear. Christians, even apostles, are distinguished not by the quantity of faith, but by the employment of faith; not by greatness or smallness of faith, but by acting on faith, even faith the size of a mustard seed.Pillar Commentary, Luke
If your going to take on your self a religion that puts on silver slippers. Just know it's taking you to hell. If your Christianity does not cost you throw it away, it's a lie! Sermon: Is Your View of the Cross Worldly
The tears are in my eyes as I look at you and say, Why will you die? Will you not give your soul a thought? Will you perish through sheer carelessness? Oh, do not do so, but weigh these solemn matters and make sure of eternity! Do not refuse Jesus, His love, His blood, His salvation. All of Grace (150)
Believe God's word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your Rock is Christ, and it is not the Rock which ebbs and flows, but your sea.
Sanctification and the mortification of our lusts are the hardest part of Christianity. It is, in a manner, as natural for us to leap when we see the new Jerusalem as to laugh when we are tickled. Joy is not under command nor at our nod when it kisseth. But O, how many of us would have Christ divided into two halves, that we might take the half of Him only and take His office—Jesus and salvation! But Lord is a cumbersome word, and to obey and work out our salvation and perfect holiness is the cumbersome and stormy north side of Christ and that which we eschew and shift.
I often told you that few are saved and many damned. I pray you to make your poor soul sure of salvation and the seeking of heaven your daily task. If you never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, you have not yet lighted upon Christ. Look to the right marks of having closed with Christ. If you love Him better than the world and would quit all the world for Him, then that saith the work is sound. O, if you saw the beauty of Jesus and smelled the fragrance of His love, you would run through fire and water to be at Him.
Mistaken grace, and somewhat like conversion, which is not conversion, is the saddest and most doleful thing in the world. Make sure of salvation and lay the foundation sure, for many are beguiled. Put a low price upon the world's clay; put a high price upon Christ.
Providence hath a thousand keys to open a thousand sundry doors for the deliverance of His own, when it is even come to a desperate case. Let us be faithful and care for our own part, which is to do and suffer for Him and lay Christ's part on Himself and leave it there.