“The hammer of the law breaks, but the heart, when thus broken, is like a broken flint, every bit of which is still flint… An old divine says that when the law creates repentance the tears are hard as hailstones in the sinner’s eyes, and I believe it is so.
But when the gospel makes us repent, our weeping is as the dew of the morning. What a blessed softness grace produces! How tender is the heart which Jesus touches with His pierced hand!
… The love of Jesus has a cleansing and sanctifying power. To kill the love of sin live in the love of Christ… His love is as a fire… it consumes sin, and gives forth a fragrance of virtue. No furnace ever purifies our heart like the love of Jesus, which burns like coals of juniper.”
— Charles Spurgeon