“We desire to put Christ over the head of doctrine, we make the doctrine the throne for Christ to sit on, but we dare not put Christ at the bottom, and then press Him down, and overload Him with the doctrines to His own Word.”

Charles Spurgeon

“Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.”

David Brainerd

“Could not but think, as I have often remarked to others, that much more of true religion consists in deep humility, brokenness of heart, and an abasing sense of barrenness and want of grace and holiness than most who are called Christians imagine”

David Brainerd

“What mercy it is that it is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold on you.”

Charles Spurgeon

“Confession of sin endears Christ to the soul. If I say I am a sinner, how precious will Christ’s blood be to me!”

Thomas Watson

“Sorrow for sin must surpass worldly sorrow. We must grieve more for offending God than for the loss of dear relations.”

Thomas Watson

“The Christian has arrived at a sufficient measure of sorrow when the love of sin is purged out.”

Thomas Watson

“Sin is worse than the devil; he therefore that is more afraid of the devil than sin, knows not the badness of sin as he ought; nor but little of the love of Christ.”

John Bunyan