Ronald Cannon

“I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am”
― John Newton

“There are always two sides to every story, and it is generally wise, and safe, and charitable, to take the best; and yet there is probably no one way in which persons are so liable to be wrong, as in presuming the worst is true, and in forming and expressing their judgement of others, and of their actions, without waiting till all the truth is known.”
― Jonathan Edwards, Charity and Its Fruits: Christian Love as Manifested in the Heart and Life

“[I]t is not hasty reading--but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee’s touching of the flower, which gathers honey--but her abiding for a time upon the flower, which draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads most--but he who meditates most, who will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.”
― Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices

“Mercy is God's favour that holds back from us what we deserve. Grace is God's favour that gives us what we do not deserve.”
― Rolfe Barnard, Sermons of Evangelist Rolfe Barnard: Vol 3