When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's side. It isn't that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does. —AW Tozer
We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No — 𝘑𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘺. It was the mercy of God that gave us Calvary, not Calvary that gave us mercy. —AW Tozer God can distinguish between weakness and wickedness. God has mercy for ‘can-nots’, but none for ‘will-nots’. —Puritan Samuel Bolton, The True Bounds of Christian Freedom, 434
To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing. Martin Luther
This is the lesson a Christian has to learn, to walk in the Law in respect of duty, but to live above it in respect of comfort, neither expecting favor from the Law in respect of his obedience nor fearing harsh treatment from the Law in respect of his failing. —Samuel Bolton
We cannot wait until we feel the Spirit moving us… We must obey God even when our heart is not in it - often to discover that our hearts come alive to our duty even while we do it. —Puritan Samuel Bolton, The True Bounds of Christian Freedom, 132 The God of the New Testament is no less angry with sin than the God of the Old. The God of the Old Testament is no less love than the God of the New. —Terry L. Johnson, The Identity and Attributes of God, 55
They have no experience of the love of God and think that the discovery [of it] would give them a license to transgress. —Ralph Erskine (1685-1752), Works 1:453 It is not said, there is nothing condemnable 𝘪𝘯 the believer, but there is no condemnation 𝘧𝘰𝘳 the believer. —Ebenezer Erskine (1680-1754), Beauties of Ebenezer Erskine, Pg. 219 Do not say, ‘I am not prepared for coming to Christ’; for I know of no preparation a sinner can make for Christ, but that of seeing himself lost and undone without Him. —Ebenezer Erskine (1680-1754), The Beauties of Ebenezer Erskine, Pg. 115
“There is nothing that characterizes… a Christian so much as desires. … Words and actions may be counterfeit, but desires and affections cannot because they are the immediate issues and productions of the soul. A man by his desires may know who he is.” — Richard Sibbes
Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity. — Charles Spurgeon
Humans will not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty. -John Calvin -
Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces. ⏤ J.C. Ryle
A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from #God -Jonathan Edwards - The #church of #Christ is the multitude of all those who believe in Christ for the remission of sins -William Tyndale -
"The Bible doesn’t just “contain” the Word of God. It actually IS the Word of God." - Ken Ham
When the Bible says that Christ is God, it does not ask us to forget a single thing that it has said about the stupendous majesty of God. No, it asks us to remember every one of those things in order that we may apply them all to Jesus Christ. —J. Gresham Machen
"The love of Christ in its sweetness, its fullness, its greatness, its faithfulness, passes all human comprehension." — Charles Spurgeon
#Jesus wills to have the whole of what he bought with his precious blood with him in heaven he will not lose any part. -C.H. Spurgeon -
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