The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But, in course of time, we see that a great change has taken place. So it is with grace. Sanctification is a progressive, lifelong work (Prov 4:18). It is an amazing work of God's grace and it is a work to be prayed for (Rom 8:27).

Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.

It is truth alone that capacitates any soul to glorify God.

Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.

...but let it suffice us to know that it became God, who is the supreme Ruler, Governor and Judge of all that sin should be punished with death in the sinner or his surety; and therefore if God would bring many sons to glory, the Captain of their salvation must undergo sufferings and death, to make satisfaction for them.

Longing, breathing, and panting after deliverance is a grace in itself, that has a mighty power to conform the soul into the likeness of the thing longed after...unless you long for deliverance you shall not have it.

Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"