Adam Lang

“But if God brings us into the cross, He will be with us in the cross, and at length, bring us out more refined. We shall lose nothing but dross.”
― Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed

“Someone might object that they have been taught that God loves sinners, including those who sin racially, unconditionally. No, God loves sinners in Christ. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. The only place where a sinner can possibly be a recipient of God’s love is in Christ. God’s love for sinners was bestowed and manifested in one place only, and that place was the cross of Christ. And so what happens to those who hate Christ, who despise His cross, who insist on turning their face away from Him? What happens to those who stand aloof from God’s solitary provision for sinners? They remain outside in the twilight—a twilight that is rapidly becoming the outer darkness. Where they stand, they hate God, and God hates them.”
― Douglas Wilson, Skin and Blood

“The duties that God ordinarily requires from us are not proportioned to the strength we have in ourselves but to the help and relief that is laid up for us in Christ.”
― John Owen, Temptation: Winning the Battle Before the War: In Modern English

“Let us lament our own perversity, and say: “Lord, what a heart I have that
needs all this, so that none of this could be spared!”
― Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed