What They Said

WE ARE CHRISTIANS ENTIRELY AND SOLELY AS THE RESULT OF THE GRACE OF GOD . Let us remind ourselves once more that grace means “unmerited, undeserved favor.” It is an action that arises entirely from the gracious character of God. So the fundamental proposition is that salvation is something that comes to us entirely from God’s side. What is still more important is this: it not only comes from God’s side, it comes to us in spite of ourselves—“unmerited” favor. 

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Purchasing our peace at such a price, God has done more for you and me than for all the universe besides. Creator of earth and heaven, he threw suns from his hand like sparks shot from the fire, and, as a potter turns off clay vessels from his wheel, he fashioned the worlds, and sent them away spinning in their orbits; but here is a greater work.”

Thomas Guthrie

“There is but one work by which a man can be saved. That work is not shine, but the work of the Son of God. That work is finished,—neither to be taken from nor added to,—perfect through all ages,—and presented by Himself to you, that you may avail yourself of it and be saved.”

Horatius Bonar

“True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.”

Jonathan Edwards

“It is as easy for him to save a great as a small sinner.  No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins.  Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.”

Archibald Alexander

"The man who is a true Christian is a man who has had a glimpse of Hell, and who knows that there is only one reason for the fact that he is not bound for it."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"The ultimate end and object of salvation is the glorification of the Son."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"Why is it that the Christian Church appears as she does at the present time?  What is the matter, what is the real explanation?  I suggest that it is partly and chiefly because our fundamental concept of salvation is wrong.  We do not think of it in terms of truth.   Too often we think in terms of feelings, or experience only."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

"When the soul, in all duties and distress, can say, “Nothing but Christ, Christ alone, for righteousness, justification, sanctification, redemption” (I Cor 1:30); not my humblings, not my duties, not my graces; then that soul has got above the reach of the billows."

Thomas Wilcox