If we would excite and strengthen any Christian grace in ourselves, we must familiarize our minds to a fit portion of truth. And if we would excite and strengthen any Christian grace in others, we must present a fit portion of truth to their attentive minds, and lead them to dwell upon it in devout meditation. We are rational and moral beings, and are made to be influenced and governed by rational and moral considerations, that is, by divine truth. And if we were rightly disposed, how great would be the power of truth over our hearts and lives! Under its efficacious influence, how should we grow in grace and be adorned with the beauties of holiness! And how deplorable is that blindness of mind and hardness of heart, which prevents this blessed influence of divine truth, and makes that, which should be a savor of life unto life, a savor of death unto death!
Leonard Woods — The Works of Leonard Woods, D.D., vol. 3 (Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1851), Lecture LXXXVIII, "Direct Agency of the Spirit Consistent with Moral Agency," p. 21
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