"To repent is to change your mind about sin and Christ and all the good things of God. There is sorrow implied in this; but the main point is the turning of the heart from sin to Christ. If there be this turning you have the essence of the repentance, even though no alarm and no despair should ever have cast their shadow upon your mind."--_C. H. Spurgeon._ "Conviction of sin is just the sinner seeing himself as he is and as God has all along seen him."--_H. Bonar, in "God's Way of Peace."_ "The object of the Holy Spirit's work in convincing of sin is to alter the sinner's opinion of himself and so to reduce his estimate of his own character, that he shall think of himself as God does, and so cease to suppose it possible that he can be justified by any excellence of his own. Having altered the sinner's good opinion of himself, the Spirit then alters his evil opinion of God, so as to make him see that the God with whom he has to deal is really the God of all grace."--_Bonar._ "It is impossible, therefore, in the nature of things, for a sinful being to appreciate God's mercy unless he first feels His justice as manifest in the holy law."--_Walker, in "Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation."_ "Man cannot repent and turn from sin till he is convicted of sin in himself."--_Walker, in "Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation."_ "The more we feel the want of a benefactor, temporal or spiritual, and the more we feel our inability to rescue ourselves from existing difficulties and impending dangers, the more grateful love will the heart feel for the being who, moved by, and in despite of, personal sacrifices, interposes to assist and save us."--_Walker, in "Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation."_