The marvel of marvels is not that God, in his infinite love, has not elected all this guilty race to be saved, but that he has elected any.
— Benjamin B. Warfield (1851 – 1921)
Daily Christian quotes to direct, inspire, encourage, and help ordinary Christians in the rough and tumble of their daily lives!
The marvel of marvels is not that God, in his infinite love, has not elected all this guilty race to be saved, but that he has elected any.
— Benjamin B. Warfield (1851 – 1921)
Christ did not die to make possible the salvation of all mankind, but to make certain the salvation of all that the Father had given to Him.
— A. W. Pink (1886-1952)
Strengthen your hearts, dearly beloved, for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ is nigh. Think how the Son of God, Himself God eternal, became man in order to help us. The immortal Physician came to heal our incurable sores. The all-powerful Lord came, not to trouble the dead, but to vivify the living, and redeem His elect from eternal death.
— Jan Hus (1373-1415)
To those who are elect and have the Spirit, predestination is the very sweetest of all doctrines, but to the worldly-wise it is the bitterest and hardest of all. The reason God saves in this way is to show that he saves not by our merits but by election pure and simple, and by his unchanging will. We are saved by his unchanging love.
— Martin Luther (1483–1546)
How sweet and awesome is the place with Christ within the doors,
while everlasting love displays the choicest of her stores.
While all our hearts and all our songs join to admire the feast,
each of us cries, with thankful tongue, “Lord, why was I a guest?
“Why was I made to hear your voice, and enter while there’s room,
when thousands make a wretched choice, and rather starve than come?”
‘Twas the same love that spread the feast that sweetly drew us in;
else we had still refused to taste, and perished in our sin.
Pity the nations, O our God, constrain the earth to come;
send your victorious Word abroad, and bring the strangers home.
We long to see your churches full, that all the chosen race
may, with one voice and heart and soul, sing your redeeming grace.
— Isaac Watts (1674 – 1748)