John Laidlaw, Foundation Truths of Scripture as to Sin and Salvation (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1897), Lesson VIII, "Salvation: The Initial Grace by Which the Spirit Brings Us to Christ," pp. 90–91

Mere terror produces no “repentance unto life.” The great love of God in providing a Saviour for us, and the great love of the Saviour in bearing our sins and bearing them away, is what really moves us to penitence. To b…