Conversion is a work above man's power... Never think you can convert yourself. If ever you would be savingly converted, you must despair of doing it in your own strength. It is a resurrection from the dead, a new creation, a work of absolute omnipotence... Conversion is a supernatural work.

Christ does not control his subjects by force, but is King of a willing people. They are, through His grace, freely devoted to His service.

For a soul to come to Jesus, is the grandest event in its history.

There is no surer evidence of an unconverted state than to have the things of the world uppermost in our aim, love, and estimation.

In every sound convert the judgment is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subscribe to them as most righteous and reasonable; the desire of the heart is to know the whole mind of Christ; the free and resolved choice of the heart is determined for the ways of Christ, before all the pleasures of sin, and prosperities of the world; it is the daily care of his life to walk with God.

A man may as well hew marble without tools, or paint without colors or instruments, or build without materials, as perform any acceptable service without the graces of the Spirit, which are both the materials and instruments in the work.

If thy hope be any thing worth, it will purify thee from thy sins.