There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception.
Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.
The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.
The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
Satan is an astute theologian.
Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.
We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.
The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.
The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts.
Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.
Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.
Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.
It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.
The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.
There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
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