Cory Cooper

“When it comes down to it, the primary goal of Christian parenting is not necessarily to produce godly children but, first and foremost, to be godly parents.”
― Christopher Yuan, Holy Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Shaped by God's Grand Story

“It is simply a consistent living out of our filial relationship with God into which the gospel brings us. It is just a matter of the child of God being true to type, true to his Father, to his Savior and to himself. It is the expressing of one’s adoption in one’s life. It is a matter of being a good son or daughter, as distinct from a prodigal or black sheep in the royal family.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

“God's leaving men to the power of the sin and corruption of the heart is often expressed by God's hardening their hearts: Rom. 9:18 , "Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections

“Richard Lovelace was a student of the history of revivals. He sought to discover what, for all their apparent differences, they had in common. He concluded that while Christians know intellectually that their justification (acceptance by God) is the basis for their sanctification (their actual moral behavior), in their actual “day-today existence . . . they rely on their sanctification for their justification . . . drawing their assurance of acceptance with God from their sincerity, their past experience of conversion, their recent religious performance or the relative infrequency of their conscious, willful disobedience.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City