You must be made miserable before you can know true Christian joy. Indeed the real trouble with the miserable Christian is that he has never been truly made miserable because of conviction of sin. He has by-passed the essential preliminary to joy, he has been assuming something that he has no right to assume.
Topics: Joy, Conviction
Source: Spiritual Depression - Its Causes and its Cures, 1965, p. 28

There is something essentially wrong with a man who calls himself a Christian and who can listen to a truly evangelistic sermon without coming under conviction again, without feeling something of his own unworthiness, and rejoicing when he hears the Gospel remedy being presented.
Topics: Conviction
Source: Preachers and Preaching, Zondervan, 1971, p. 150