
"God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become."
—John Ortberg
"When God is about to do something great, he starts with a difficulty. When he is about to do something truly magnificent, he starts with an impossibility."
—Armin Gesswein
"I resolve to endeavor to my utmost to act and think as if I had already seen the happiness of heaven and the torments of hell."
—Jonathan Edwards
"I have lived, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God Governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?"
—Benjamin Franklin
"Repentance is a change of willing, of feeling and of living, in respect to God."
—Charles Finney
"A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles."
—B. B. Warfield
"The Church is a society of sinners - the only society in the world in which membership is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership."
—Charles C. Morrison