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“God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure; for He “worketh all things after the counsel of His own will” (Eph 1:11). That He did create was simply for His manifestative glory. Do”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God - with study questions

“There must be head faith before there can be heart faith. We must believe intellectually before we can believe savingly in the Lord Jesus.”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Seven Sayings of the Saviour on the Cross

“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

“We are unprofitable servants” (Luk 17:10)—our obedience has profited God nothing.”
― Arthur W. Pink, The Attributes of God - with study questions