In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.
Charles SpurgeonConversion is not, as some suppose, a violent opening of the heart by grace, in which will, reason and judgment are all ignored or crushed. The season is not blinded, but enlightened; and the whole man is made to act with a glorious liberty which it never knew till it fell under the restraints of grace.
Charles Spurgeon