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title: 'James Brainerd Taylor: “Look Unto Jesus”'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2024-02-20
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2024-james-brainerd-taylor-look-unto-jesus
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# James Brainerd Taylor: “Look Unto Jesus”

“Do we want stronger faith? To Jesus must we look, who is the author and finisher of faith; and pray, as by example we are taught, ‘Lord increase our faith.’ Would we be what God would have us to be, what do we need but to be conformed to the image of his dear Son? And how shall this be effected but by looking continually unto Jesus?” — **James Brainerd Taylor**, December 23, 1823 Letter to Frederick William Hotchkiss in [John H. Rice](/authors/john-holt-rice) & [Benjamin H. Rice](/authors/benjamin-holt-rice), *Memoir of James Brainerd Taylor* (1833), p. 175