"Children are coming to the [new] birth too easily, too readily..... So the absence of a profound joy is, I suggest, due to the fact that we are in too much hurry; we are too anxious to count heads; we are too interested in results..... A minister who had won first prize for sweet peas told me that the secret of his success was to dig deep- to a depth corresponding to the desired height of the stalk. And it is exactly the same in this [spiritual] realm. You have got to have deep conviction of sin before you will have a great joy..... In every realm of life today we are such believers in quick returns, that the returns we get are not worth having. You have got to 'take time to be holy'. " D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
