Chris

“God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul?” Now these things did indeed make man glorious, by supplying what was wanting to him, namely, the friendship of God; but they profited God nothing, for God did not at all stand in need of man’s love. For the glory of God was wanting to man, which he could obtain in no other way than by serving God.”
― The Church Fathers, The Complete Ante-Nicene & Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers Collection

“God does not prevent anyone from repentance, believing in Christ, and salvation. God is not the cause of anyone’s damnation. Man and his own free will are to be blamed for that fact that he lives an ungodly life, and it is therefore just when God punishes and damns him for his sins.”
― Wilhelmus à Brakel, The Christian's Reasonable Service, Vol. 2

“The trouble with man is not in his intellect, it is in his nature--the passions and the lusts...and though you try to educate and control man it will avail nothing as long as his nature is sinful and fallen and he is a creature of passion and dishonor.”
― Martin Lloyd-Jones

“There is nothing in God's universe that is so utterly useless as a merely formal Christian. I mean by that, one who has the name but not the quality of a Christian...He has enough 'Christianity' to spoil everything else, but not enough to give him real happiness, peace and joy and abundance of life...They do not function as worldlings or Christians. They are nothing, neither salt nor light, neither one thing nor the other.”
― Martin Lloyd-Jones