"God will not give us good habits, He will not give us character, He will not make us walk aright. We have to do all that ourselves, we have to work out the salvation God has worked in. … We have to get into the habit of hearkening to God about everything, to form the habit of finding out what God says. If when a crisis comes, we instinctively turn to God, we know that the habit has been formed."
— Oswald Chambers
Source: My Utmost for His Highest, May 10, "Take the Initiative"
"Who will deny that true religion consists in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? ... He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion."
— Jonathan Edwards
Source: A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (1746), Part I