“Although my memory’s fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.” – John Newton

“The devil is aware that one hour of close, spiritual and hearty converse with God in prayer, is able to pull down what he hath been contriving and building many a year.” – John Flavel

“The shop, the barn, the scullery, and the smithy become temples when men and women do all to the glory of God!” – C. H. Spurgeon

“All who are saved are saved as a result of what God does. All who are lost are lost as a result of what they do.” – Don Fortner

“To the Arminian, Christ can never truly be Savior in this life. At best, He is Probation Officer.” – Dan Phillips

“Some men cannot endure to hear the Doctrine of Election. I suppose they like to choose their own wives, but they are not willing that Christ should select His bride, the Church!” – C. H. Spurgeon

“The doctrine of providence teaches Christians that they are never in the grip of blind forces (fortune, chance, luck, fate); all that happens to them is divinely planned, and each event comes as a new summons to trust, obey, and rejoice, knowing that all is for one’s spiritual and eternal good (Rom. 8:28).” J. I. Packer

“It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of tempatation… either because I enjoy the prospect or because I’m not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.” – Alistair Begg

“A natural faith is sufficient for trusting a human object; but a supernatural faith is required to savingly trust in a Divine object.” – A.W. Pink, Studies On Saving Faith

“When God hardens hearts He gives them their freedom to exercise the evil of their own desires.” – R.C. Sproul

“To sum up, man cannot without sacrilege claim for himself even a crumb of righteousness, for just so much is plucked and taken away from the glory of God’s righteousness. We must hold this as a universal principle: Whoever glories in himself glories against God.” – John Calvin

“The reason the church tries so many other things besides preaching Christ is because it suspects the kingdom can be established some other way. But there is no other way. People will not come into the kingdom because they like the minister, support the children’s program, or enjoy the music. They may come into a church that way, but not into the kingdom. The only way people ever come into God’s kingdom is by hearing His heralds proclaim a crucified King.” – Philip Graham Ryken

“I’ve often reflected on the rather obvious thought that when his disciples were about to have the world collapse in on them, our Lord spent so much time in the Upper Room speaking to them about the mystery of the Trinity. If anything could underline the necessity of Trinitarianism for practical Christianity, that must surely be it!” Sinclair Ferguson, cited in Letham, The Holy Trinity, 375
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