God will not quench the smoking flax, but blow it up till it flames. In smoking flax there is but little light... See More… Grace is little at the first… Let us not be discouraged at the small beginnings of grace, but look on ourselves as “elected to be blameless and without spot” (Eph. 1:4)… Christ will not quench small and weak beginnings. First, because this spark is from heaven, it is his own, it is kindled by his own Spirit. And secondly, it tends to the glory of his powerful grace in his children that he preserves light in the midst of darkness–a light in the midst of swelling waters of corruption. –Richard Sibbes