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[Regenerated]

"We are not born again by repentance or faith or conversion: we repent and believe because we have been born again." - John Murray

 

[Regenerated]

"Regeneration, however it is described, is a divine activity in us, in which we are not the actors but the recipients." - Sinclair Ferguson

 

[Regenerated]

"Grace alone makes the elect gracious; grace
alone keeps them gracious; and the same grace alone will render
them everlastingly glorious in the heaven of heavens." - Augustus Toplady

 

[Eleiou]

“You sometimes wonder that the Gospel does not spread more rapidly in the earth. But are disobedient servants likely to do their Master’s work well? If there are commands of Jesus which we persistently ignore—if there are precepts of the Savior which, year after year, we forget—if there are Doctrines and other parts of His teaching to which we turn a deaf ear, can we expect Him to bless us?” - The Reverend Charles Spurgeon

 

[bennyk]

But we will come again to this Valley of Humiliation. It is the best and most fruitful piece of ground in all those parts. It is fat ground, and as you see, consisteth much in meadows; and if a man was to come here in the summer-time, as we do now, if he knew not any thing before thereof, and if he also delighted himself in the sight of his eyes, he might see that which would be delightful to him. Behold how green this valley is; also how beautified with lillies. Song 2:1. I have known many laboring men that have got good estates in this Valley of Humiliation; for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble. James 4:6; 1 Pet. 5:5. Indeed it is a very fruitful soil, and doth bring forth by handfuls. Some also have wished that the next way to their Father’s house were here, that they might be troubled no more with either hills or mountains to go over; but the way is the way, and there is an end.

In this valley our Lord formerly had his country-house: he loved much to be here. He loved also to walk these meadows, for he found the air was pleasant. Besides, here a man shall be free from the noise, and from the hurryings of this life: all states are full of noise and confusion; only the Valley of Humiliation is that empty and solitary place. Here a man shall not be so let and hindered in his contemplation as in other places he is apt to be. This is a valley that nobody walks in but those that love a pilgrim’s life. And though Christian had the hard hap to meet here with Apollyon, and to enter with him in a brisk encounter, yet I must tell you, that in former times men have met with angels here, Hos. 12:4,5, have found pearls here, Matt. 13:46, and have in this place found the words of life. Prov. 8:36.


-from Pilgrim's Progress

 

[Eleiou]

Charles Spurgeon:

“The Hindu meets the Muslim and he says, ‘No doubt you are sincere as well as we are, and you and we shall at last meet in the right place.’ They would salute the Christian, too, and say the same to him, but it is a necessity, if our religion is true, that it should denounce every other and that it should say unto those who know not Christ, ‘Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.’ Yes, it goes still further and pronounces its anathema upon those who pretend to any other way! ‘Though we or an angel from Heaven preach any other Gospel than that which you have received, let him be accursed.’ I simply mention certain other ways to assure you, in God’s name, that they are roads which lead to Hell and that none of them can bring you to Heaven—for there is only one way by which the soul can came to God and find eternal life—and that way is Christ.”

 

[VCViking]

Charles Spurgeon:

“The Hindu meets the Muslim and he says, ‘No doubt you are sincere as well as we are, and you and we shall at last meet in the right place.’ They would salute the Christian, too, and say the same to him, but it is a necessity, if our religion is true, that it should denounce every other and that it should say unto those who know not Christ, ‘Other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.’ Yes, it goes still further and pronounces its anathema upon those who pretend to any other way! ‘Though we or an angel from Heaven preach any other Gospel than that which you have received, let him be accursed.’ I simply mention certain other ways to assure you, in God’s name, that they are roads which lead to Hell and that none of them can bring you to Heaven—for there is only one way by which the soul can came to God and find eternal life—and that way is Christ.”

Nice!

 

[Eleiou]

"Arminianism is natural in one sense, in that it represents a characteristic perversion of Biblical teaching by the fallen mind of man" - J.I. Packer

 

[Regenerated]

Sovereign Grace Quotes

"They go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man’s free-will is the cause why God chooseth and not another, contrary to all scriptures." -William Tyndale
"Free will is corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds." -John Owen
[SIZE=+0][SIZE=+0]"...he who in his soul believes that man does of his own free will, turn to God cannot have been taught of God..." -C. H. Spurgeon[/SIZE][/SIZE]
[SIZE=+0]"The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again." -C. H. Spurgeon[/SIZE]
"It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else." -C. H. Spurgeon
"As for the absence of original sin, and power in the will to receive and refuse grace and salvation being generally offered by the Gospel, and Christ dying for all persons universally..." "...and for such to fall so as to be damned eternally, and all of the like nature, I do believe is a doctrine from beneath, and not from above, and the teachers of it from Satan, and not from God, and to be rejected as such that oppose Christ and his Gospel." -John Spilsbury
"Who will believe he is loved of God? No man can! But the elect shall believe it." -Martin Luther
"[The natural man is] bound, miserable, captive, sick, and dead, but who by the operation of his lord, Satan, adds to his other miseries, blindness: so that he believes he is free, happy, at liberty, powerful, whole and alive." -Martin Luther
"I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a universal atonement that is not efficacious for anybody, except the will of men be added to it." -C. H. Spurgeon
"Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all" -John Calvin
"If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly" -Martin Luther
"But if the whole man is subject to the dominion of sin, surely the will, which is its principal seat, must be bound with the closest chains. And, indeed, if divine grace were preceded by any will of ours, Paul could not have said that 'it is God which worketh in us both to will and to do,' (Philip. 2: 13.) Away, then, with all the absurd trifling which many have indulged in with regard to preparation." -John Calvin
[SIZE=+0]"No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please" -Charles Hodge[/SIZE]
"They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due" -Jonathan Edwards
"The doctrines of grace humble a man without degrading him and exalt a man without inflating him" -Charles Hodge
"Where the God-centered principles of Calvinismi have been abandoned, there has been a strong tendency downward into the depths of man-centered naturalism or secularism. Some have declared, rightly, we believe, that there is no consistent stopping place between Calvinism and atheism" -Ken Talbot
[SIZE=+0]"[It is] essentially wholesome and necessary, for a Christian to know, whether or not the will does any thing in those things which pertain unto Salvation. Nay, let me tell you, this is the very hinge upon which our discussion turns. It is the very heart of the subject" -Martin Luther[/SIZE]
"In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water." -John Calvin

"They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission -- as if God sat in a watchtower awaiting chance events , and his judgments thus depended upon human will." -John Calvin
"The doctrine of justification itself, as preached by an Arminian, is nothing but the doctrine of salvation by works..." -C. H. Spurgeon
"I believe the man who is not willing to submit to the electing love and sovereign grace of God, has great reason to question whether he is a Christian at all, for the spirit that kicks against that is the spirit of the devil, and the spirit of the unhumbled, unrenewed heart." -C. H. Spurgeon





"You see, what we need to remember, brothers, is that our God is a purpose driven God. Three times in Ephesians chapter 1, He tells us that the gospel and the ministry of Christ is to the praise of the glory of His grace. That's His purpose, His glory. The ultimate purpose has not been, will never be, the eternal souls of men being saved. That is not the ultimate purpose. God is absolutely powerful enough to redeem every soul, had He wanted to. The ultimate purpose is the glory of God, and sir, you will glorify God, either in Hell, vindicating His justice, that should come against a sinner like you, or either in Heaven, glorifying His grace that got you there, fully by His own doing, but you will glorify God."
"You see, God is absolutely thrilled about being God. And He wants the universe to see the glories of who He is. For the universe to see the glories of His love, and grace, and mercy, He needed deeply offensive, ungodly rebels, and sinners who ought to go to Hell that He could redeem, and make just, as His Son is just, and you all qualify. That's why you're saved, chiefly to the praise of the glory of His grace." -Jeff Noblit

 

[JM]

Charnock,

It is evident, in abstinence from some sins, not because they offend God, but because they are against the interest of some other beloved corruption, or a bar to something men hunt after in the world. When temperance is cherished not to honor God, but preserve a crazy carcase ; prodigality forsaken, out of a humor of avarice ; uncleanness forsaken, not out of a hatred of lust, but love to their money ; declining a denial of the interest and truth of God, not out of affection to them, but an ambitious zeal for their own reputation. There is a kind of conversion from sin, when God is not made the. term of it (Jer. iv. 1) : ” If thou wilt return, O Israel, return unto me, saith the Lord.”



When we forbear sin as dogs do the meat they love: they forbear not out of a hatred of the carrion, but fear of the cudgel ; these are as wicked in their abstaining from sin, as others are in their furious committing it. Nothing of the honor of God and the end of his appointments is indeed in all this, but the conveniences self gathers from them. Again, many of the motived the generality of the world uses to their friends and relations to draw them from vices, are drawn from self, and used to prop up natural or sinful self in them. Come, reform yourself, take other courses, you will smut your reputation and be despicable ; you will destroy your estate, and commence a beggar ; your family will be undone, and you may rot in a prison : not laying close to them the duty they owe to God, the dishonor which accrues to him by their unworthy courses, and the ingratitude to the God of their mercies ; not that the other motives are to be laid aside and slighted.


Mint and cummin may be tithed, but the weightier concerns are not to be omitted ; but this shows that self is the bias, not only of men in their own course, but in their dealings with others; what should be subordinate to the honor of God, and the duty we owe to him, is made superior.

 

[JM]

The Existence and Attributes of God

Page 127, “The law of God is the rule of that order he would have observed in the world; he that makes another law his rule, thrusts out the order of the Creator, and establishes the disorder of the creature.”

Page 129, “That deplorable person under the sensible stroke of God’s sovereign justice, would oppose his nay to God’s will (Luke xvi. 30): ‘And he said, Nay, father Abraham, but if one went to them from the dead they will repent.’ He would presume to prescribe more effectual means than Moses and the prophets, to inform men of the danger they incurred by their sensuality."

Page 129-30, “When our friends have been struck with a rod, against our sentiments and wishes, have not our hearts been apt to swell in complaints against God, as though he disregarded the goodness of such a person, did not see with our eyes, and measure him by our esteem of him? as if he should have asked our counsel, before he had resolved, and managed himself according to our will, rather than his own. If he be patient to the wicked, we are apt to tax his holiness, and accuse him as an enemy to his own law. If he inflict severity upon the righteous, we are ready to suspect his goodness, and charge him to be an enemy to his affectionate creature. If he spare the Nimrods of the world, we are ready to ask, ‘Where is the God of judgement?’ If he afflict the pillars of the earth, we are ready to question, where is the God of mercy? It is impossible, since the depraved nature of man, and the various interests and passions in the world, that infinite power and wisdom can act righteously for the good of the universe, but he will shake some corrupt interest or other upon earth; so various are the inclinations of men, and such a weather-**** judgement hath every man in himself, that he divine method he applauds this day, upon a change of his interest, he will cavil at the next.”


Page 131, “We cast out our mire and dirt against God when he acts cross to our wishes, and flatter him when the wind of his providence joins itself to the tide of our interest. Men set a high price upon themselves, and are angry God values them not at the same rate, as if their judgement concerning themselves were more piercing then his.”

Page 131, “This is the epidemical disease of human nature; they think they deserve caresses instead of rods, and upon crosses are more ready to tear out the heart of God, than reflect humbly upon their own hearts.”

Same page, “Instead of silently submitting to his will and adoring his wisdom, we declaim against him, as an unwise and unjust governor: we would invert his order, make him the steward and ourselves the proprietors of what we are and have: we deny ourselves to be sinners, and our mercies to be forfeited.”

 

[Regenerated]

Grace and Faith

"We deny that grace is a reward for our faith ...rather, it is the cause of faith. Jesus provides everything we need for salvation, including a new heart to believe." - Monergism.com​

Grace is that which has NOTHING to do with the receiver, and EVERYTHING to do with the Giver. - Tom Mor De Lasa​

 

[JM]

"Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over here, looking through your stuff."- Jack Handy

 

[JM]

Best quote...EVER!

 

[JM]

From Christ Crucified,

"Those who lay claim to a relation to God without imitation of him are not children but bastards. They may be of his family by instruction but not by descent. There is no implantation in Christ without an imitation both of the Creator and Redeemer." ~ Charnock

 

[JSGuitarist]

“There are some professing Christians who can speak of themselves in terms of admiration; but, from my inmost heart, I loathe such speeches more and more every day that I live. Those who talk in such a boastful fashion must be constituted very differently from me. While they are congratulation themselves, I have to lie humbly at the foot of Christ’s Cross, and marvel that I am saved at all, for I know that I am saved. I have to wonder that I do not believe Christ more, and equally wonder that I am privileged to believe in Him at all—to wonder that I do not love Him more, ande equally to wonder that I love Him at all—to wonder that I am not holier, and equally to wonder that I have any desire to be holy at all considering what a polluted debased, depraved nature I find still within my soul, notwithstanding all that divine grace has done in me. If God were ever to allow the fountains of the great deeps of depravity to break up in the best man that lives, he would make as bad a devil as the devil himself is. I care nothing for what these boasters say concerning their own perfections; I feel sure that they do not know themselves, or they could not tale as they often do. There is tinder enough in the saint who is nearest to heaven to kindle another hell if God should but permit a spark to fall upon it. In the very best of men there is an infernal and well-nigh infinite depth of depravity. Some Christians never seem to find this out. I almost wish that they might not do so, for it is a painful discovery for anyone to make; but it has the beneficial effect of making us cease from trusting in ourselves, and causing us to glory only in the Lord.” – C.H. Spurgeon