“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
“Reproaches are but splinters of the cross. How will he endure the stake, who cannot bear a scoff?”
Thomas Watson
“He who fears God considers how vain the world is, and therefore dares not love it; how short time is, therefore dares not lose it; how precious salvation is, and therefore dares not neglect it.”
Thomas Watson
