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“If a man says that having thought about the matter and having considered all sides he has on the whole decided for Christ, and if he has done so without any emotion or feeling, I cannot regard him as a man who has been regenerated. The convicted sinner no more ‘decides’ for Christ than the poor drowning man ‘decides’ to take hold of that rope that is thrown to him and suddenly provides him with the only means of escape.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers

“Serving brings great rewards, but sometimes those rewards come gift-wrapped in trying situations. Those who lovingly serve others can end up feeling like crash dummies designed specifically to discover the heat, force, and pain tolerance of some new product.”
― Thabiti M. Anyabwile, Finding Faithful Elders and Deacons

“The unity, holiness, catholicity, and apostolicity of the church depend entirely on what it hears and tells.”
― Michael S. Horton, Calvin on the Christian Life: Glorifying and Enjoying God Forever

“What we need to be rescued from is not our physical nature, our metaphysical finitude, but our personal estrangement from God. Indeed, it is sin even to seek the identity with God that the Gnostics promoted. Creatures should never seek to become God.”
― Anonymous