'But we are all as an unclean thing,' said Isaiah, 'and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.' 'I am the chief of sinners,' said the apostle.

'Hold your peace; I am a devil and not a man,' said Philip Neri to his sons.

'I am a sinner, and worse than the chief of sinners, yea, a guilty devil,' said Samuel Rutherford.

'I hated the light; I was a chief--the chief of sinners,' said Oliver Cromwell.

'I was more loathsome in my own eyes than a toad,' said John Bunyan.