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must be regarded, therefore, as a settled datum that the love of God is the cause or source of the atonement.
“C. H. Spurgeon wrote:
Christ did not love you for your good works. They were not the cause of His beginning to love you. So, He does not
love you for your good works even now. They are not the cause of His continuing to love you. He loves you because He loves you.79”
― How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home
Christ did not love you for your good works. They were not the cause of His beginning to love you. So, He does not
love you for your good works even now. They are not the cause of His continuing to love you. He loves you because He loves you.79”
― How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home
“It is entirely the work of grace and a benefit conferred by it that our heart is changed from a stony one to one of flesh, that our will is made new, and that we, created anew in heart and mind, at length will what we ought to will. i
-John Calvin”
― John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, & Doxology
-John Calvin”
― John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, & Doxology
“Getting what our hearts dream of could be our greatest undoing. Why? Because our hearts dream of less than they should. We were made to glorify God, but our hearts dream of self-glory.”
― Strength for the Weary
― Strength for the Weary
“Will Sunday worship produce Monday mercy and Friday fairness? That is the issue before us in this section of Isaiah. Piety devoid of consequent acts of mercy is empty and meaningless. And God says plainly: Fasting like yours this day will not make your voice to be heard on high. (Isa. 58:4)”
― Strength for the Weary
― Strength for the Weary
“According to Calvin, "faith is a singular gift of God, both in that the mind of man is purged so as to be able to taste the truth of God and in that his heart is established therein. For the Spirit is not only the initiator of faith, but increases it by degrees, until by it he leads us to the Kingdom of Heaven.”
― John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, & Doxology
― John Calvin: A Heart for Devotion, Doctrine, & Doxology
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