 Godly sorrow shows itself to be ingenuous because when a Christian knows that he is out of the gun-shot of hell and shall never be damned, yet still he grieves for sinning against that free grace which has pardoned him. Author: Thomas Watson
Source: The Doctrine of Repentance |
| Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God's Will. God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy. Author: Thomas Watson
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| Each of us may be sure that if God sends us on stony paths He will provide us with strong shoes, and He will not send us out on any journey for which He does not equip us well. Author: Alexander MacLaren |
| In danger Christ lashes us to Himself, as the Alpine guides do when there is perilous ice to get over. Author: Alexander MacLaren |
| Let us remember the loving-kindness of the Lord and rehearse His deeds of grace. Let us open the volume of recollection, which is so richly illuminated with memories of His mercy, and we will soon be happy. Author: Alistair Begg |
| Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ. Author: Alister McGrath |
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| Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving. Author: B.B. Warfield |
| The marvel of marvels is not that God, in His infinite love, has not elected all this guilty race to be saved, but that He has elected any. Author: B.B. Warfield |
| The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him. Author: Charles Hodge |
| Grace is not such a beggarly visitant, as will not pay its own way. When the best of beings is adored, the best of blessings are enjoyed. Author: William Secker |
| How dare you approach the mercy-seat of God on the basis of what kind of day you had, as if that were the basis for our entrance into the presence of the sovereign and holy God? No wonder we cannot beat the Devil. This is works theology. It has nothing to do with grace and the exclusive sufficiency of Christ. Nothing. Author: D.A. Carson |
| If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness; they sometimes seem not to grow in the branches when they may grow at the root; upon a check grace breaks out more; as we say, after a hard winter there usually follows a glorious spring. Author: Richard Sibbes |
