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"If I am being stupid in this, I hope anyone who has a better idea will correct me; I cannot think of one."

“I neither wished nor needed to read further. At once, with the last words of this sentence, it was as if a light of relief from all anxiety flooded into my heart. All the shadows of doubt were dispelled…”

“Did Christ endure all these things (crucifixion and death) for me? Then it is past doubt, he will never leave nor forsake me: it cannot be that after he has endured all this, he will cast off the souls for whom he endured it. Here the soul is evangelically broken, considering the mercies that emerge and flow to it out of the sea of Christ’s blood.” Sermon 25 on Luke 23:27-28

“The function of the gospel, however, is not to destroy the law, but rather to establish the telos of that law which includes its rewriting in the hearts of believers, and obedience to it coming to expression in their lives.”

“A little faith gives a whole Christ.”
“The most imperfect faith will give present justification, because it interests the soul in a present Christ… You, who have but a weak faith, have yet a strong Christ.”
- John Owen on walking by faith in Christian piety