More and more people imagine that Christ exists for our sake, while the much richer notion of our existing for the sake of Christ does not arise. —Abraham Kuyper Pro Rege
I will charge my soul to believe and to wait for Him, and will follow His providence, and not go before it, nor stay behind it. —Samuel Rutherford Letters of Samuel Rutherford, 143.
That though there is no universal atonement, yet in the word there is a warrant given to offer Christ to all mankind, whether elect or reprobate, and a warrant to all freely to receive him, however great sinners they are, or have been. —Thomas Boston The […]
The heart of man is his worst part before it be regenerate, and the best afterwards: it is the seat of principles, and the fountain of actions. The eye of God is, and the eye of the Christian ought to be, principally fixed upon it. The […]
Sin may be the occasion of great sorrow, where there is no sorrow for sin; as it was with Esau. Men may rue that in the consequents, which yet they like well enough in the causes. —John Owen Works of John Owen, 24:305.