"The gospel teaches that what could not be found in us & was to be sought in another could be found nowhere else than in Christ, the God-man; who taking upon Himself the office of surety most fully satisfied the justice of God by His perfect obedience."
- Francis Turretin
"The 'providence' we mean is not one by which the Deity, sitting idly in heaven, looks on at what is taking place in the world,
but one by which He, as it were, holds the helms and overrules all events."
- John Calvin
Christ is my righteousness. I am neither less righteous for my ill deservings nor more righteous for my good deservings, for Christ is my righteousness, and He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
John Bunyan
John Knox insisted, “All worshiping, honoring, or service invented by the brain of man in the religion of God, without his own express commandment, is idolatry.”
The reason why a person cannot come to Christ is not because they cannot come, as far as their body or intellect is concerned, but because their nature is so ruined that they have neither the WILL nor the POWER to come to Christ unless drawn by the Spirit.
Charles Spurgeon
We're united to Christ by faith — that is, by trusting in Him as our Savior. And the moment we trust in Christ, we become partakers of and beneficiaries of all that He did in both His life and death.
“That eternity should be born; that the Prince of Life should die; that the Lord of Glory should be put to shame; that sin should be punished to the full, yet pardoned to the full; who could ever have conceived of such a mystery, had not the Scripture revealed it to us?”
Watson
“That eternity should be born; that the Prince of Life should die; that the Lord of Glory should be put to shame; that sin should be punished to the full, yet pardoned to the full; who could ever have conceived of such a mystery, had not the Scripture revealed it to us?”
Watson
It is strange beyond comprehension that there are those who, professing to subscribe to the truth that only those who believe in Christ will be saved, and that all others are bound for eternal hell, yet in no way exert themselves to persuade men to depart from the road that leads to destruction and walk the road to heaven.
I believe that the most universal gift, the most universal blessing that comes from God’s common grace to humanity is time; time to repent, time to believe, time granted by God’s patience. He is patient because He is merciful.
John MacArthur