Hugh Nibley
"It is interesting that though we exercise faith and so can increase it, we have faith but we never read of receiving it; we ask for and receive health, wisdom, protection, the necessities of life, and life itself, but we do not ask for faith; it is a principle that we seem to generate in ourselves, being dependent on some auxiliary source, for it is stimulated by hope. We can 'lay hold' of these things only if we are 'meek and lowly' (Matthew 11:29), for we cannot create power by an act of will; if that were possible Satan would be all-powerful." (Approaching Zion, p. 604)