When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others.
John NewtonBy affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.
John NewtonNot only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing pardoned sinner.
John Newton