Spurgeon was right on this morning...

We go to Christ for forgiveness, and then too often look to the law for power to fight our sins....

Disciplines are nothing without Christ as a means of mortification. Your prayers, and your repentances, and your tears—the whole of them put together—are worth nothing apart from Him.
"None but Jesus can do helpless sinners good;" or helpless saints either. You must be conquerors through Him who hath loved you, if conquerors at all.

Read the whole paragraph here