True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.

Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for our sins. Christ must pay all, or we are prisoners forever.

It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.

Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled.

The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.

The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.