Bruce

“[A believer] is oftentimes at the very brink, at the very door of some folly or iniquity, when God puts in by the efficacy of actually assisting grace, and recovers them to an obediential frame of heart again. And this is a peculiar work of Christ, wherein he manifests and exerts his faithfulness toward his own: 'He is able to succor them that are tempted' (Heb. 2:18)....Here lies a great part of the care and faithfulness of Christ toward his poor saints.”
― John Owen, Overcoming Sin and Temptation

“The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.”
― Samuel Davies

“The new convert must then take a stand on the miracle that has transpired in his life [regeneration] and explain, 'I no longer love the things I once loved; I no longer do the things I once did. I am no longer Simon; I am Peter. I have become a new man!”
― Charles Leiter, Justification and Regeneration