Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving... Where there is grafting there will always be a cutting, the graft must be let in with a wound; to stick it onto the outside or to tie it on with a string would be of no use. Heart must be set to heart and back to back or there will be no sap from root to branch. And this, I say, must be done by a wound, by a cut.
John BunyanMen, even the elect, have too many infirmities to come to Christ without help from heaven; inviting will not do.
John BunyanI come from the Town of Stupidity; it lieth about four degrees beyond the City of Destruction.
John Bunyan