Without faith that the holy name is everything, that the holy name can clean my heart, that the holy name can bestow full mercy upon me, it is very difficult to focus the mind on the holy name with confidence and thus consistently. Therefore I need to not only chant carefully, but I need to hear the glories of the holy name from Srila Prabhupada and other advanced Vaisnavas.
Blog "Meditations on the Holy Name", 2009-04-29 (Interview for Dhanurdhara Swami's book "Japa Meditations, Contemplations on Entering the Holy Name")