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Sovereignty of God
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“Sin is worse than hell, but yet God, by His mighty over ruling power, makes sin turn to the good of His people. Hence that golden saying of Augustine, 'God would never permit evil, if He could not bring good out of evil.”
“God so calls as He allures; He does not force, but draw. The freedom of the will is not taken away, but the stubbornness of it is conquered. ‘Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power’ (Psalm 110:3).”
“Christ's free and sovereign love is a matter of the greatest admiration, and should be a motive unto the greatest affection unto Him.”
“God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world.”
“There is not a greater discovery of pride in the world than in the contests of our wills with the will of God.”
“God does not do many things that He can, but He does all things that He will.”
“None are drawn to Christ by their calling, nor come to him by believing, but only his sheep, those whom the Father has given him. Effectual calling runs parallel with eternal election.”
“Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should own and reverence His hand in it.”
“Go where thou wilt, thou canst not go out of thy Father's ground.”
“For as the sun darts its beams upon a dunghill, and yet is no way defiled by it; so God decrees the permission of sin, yet is not the author of sin.”
“As the light depends on the sun, or the shadow on the body that casts it, so we also depend on God; without Him, we can do nothing.”
“God hath decreed the end, so He hath decreed the means that are proper for attaining that end; so that these two must not be separated.”
“As the child cannot be active in his own generation, so a man cannot be active in his own regeneration.”
“If anything seem imperfect in itself, yet it is perfect in relation to his glorious ends he directs it unto.”
“God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties is to cast off His authority.”
“Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion.”
“Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God's Will. God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy.”
“God often goes by contrary means, and makes the enemy do his work. He can make a straight stroke with a crooked stick.”
“God's glory is more worth than heaven, and more worth than the salvation of all men's souls.”
“None can do as God; he brought the world out of nothing.”
“Who can have a better right to us than he that gives us our breath?”
“When your will is God's will, you will have your will.”
“God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart.”
“Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, either led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.”
“Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.”
“Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.”
“You will win as many souls as God gives you, but no one will be converted by your own power.”
“If it pleases Him to bid our patience exercise itself, shall He not do as He wills with His own!”
“We ought to prepare the sermon as if all depended on us, and then trust the Spirit of God, knowing that all depends on Him.”
“Infinite wisdom never attempts that which is unnecessary.”