“Though men may think themselves happy, and flatter themselves and exult in their condition, they are yet in a most miserable state; for all happiness is ruinous which does not flow from the fountain of God’s gratuitous love; in short, when God is not our Father, the more we abound in all kinds of blessings, the deeper we sink in all kinds of miseries.”
John Calvin
“Christians can be confident about their growth in sanctification and eternal security because they are confident in the God who promises it.”
John Owen
“It is a great piece of happiness upon earth not to long after that which the Lord is pleased to deny.”
Simeon Ashe
“So wonderful is Christ’s love for his own that he is not satisfied with the idea of merely bringing them to heaven. He must needs take them into his own embrace.”
William Hendriksen
“History is not at the mercy of the whims or passions of politicians or tyrants. The reins are firmly in the hands of the Lord of history, and ‘he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice'” (Acts 17:31).
Bruce Milne
“God is working out his eternal purpose not only in spite of human and satanic opposition, but by means of them.”
A.W. Pink
“You must either praise God or be miserable. You do have a choice: you must either worship the God who made you, or else you must be wretched. . . . but your wretchedness begins within yourself, for to be unable to praise is to be full of hell.”
Charles Spurgeon
“Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world.”
Thomas Boston
