"God will not suffer
man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of
his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding of his
adversity,
he would be despairing and senseless."
Augustine of Hippo
(354-430)
"God chooses us,
not
because we believe, but that we may believe."
Augustine of Hippo
(354-430)
"If
God does not
exist,
then everything is permitted."
Fyodor Mikhailovich
Dostoevsky
(1821-1881)
"The
Sovereignty of
God is the stumbling block on which thousands
fall and perish; and if
we
go contending with God about His sovereignty it will be our eternal
ruin.
It is absolutely necessary that we should submit to God as an absolute
sovereign, and the sovereign of our souls; as one who may have mercy on
whom He will have mercy and harden whom He will"
Jonathan Edwards
"By
the light of
nature
we see God as a God above us, by the light of the law we see Him as a
God
against us, but by the light of the gospel we see Him as Emmanuel, God
with us."
Matthew Henry
"It
costs God nothing,
so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious
wills cost Him
crucifixion."
C.S. Lewis
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