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“We judge things by their present appearances, but the Lord sees them in their consequences.”
― John Newton, Letters of John Newton

“the depth and complexity and ugliness and danger of sin in professing Christians is either minimized—since we are already justified—or psychologized as a symptom of woundedness rather than corruption.”
― John Owen, Overcoming Sin and Temptation: Three Classic Works by John Owen

“Everything about God is great, vast, incomparable. He never forgets, never fails, never falters, never forfeits His word.”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God

“What did it profit that I read the greatest human ideas of the so-called “liberal arts” in the books I got hold of. My thinking was enslaved to corrupt desires, so what difference did it make that I could read and understand these books? I delighted in learning, but I had no divine context for what my mind picked up. I had no foundation to discern what is true or certain. I was standing with my back to the light, so that the things that should be illuminated were in shadow, even though they were in front of my face.”
― Augustine of Hippo, The Confessions of St. Augustine: Modern English Version