R. W. Church, M.A., D.C.L., sometime Dean of St. Paul's, Village Sermons Preached at Whatley, first series (London: Macmillan and Co., 1899), Sermon VII, "The Comfort of Repentance," p. 66

We can bear much when we are at peace within. That which makes trouble so dreadful, so hard to endure, is our own secret knowledge that we are unfaithful to our duty, unfaithful to Christ and our Father. That which gives…