"We are like dwarfs seated on the
shoulders of giants; we see more things than the ancients and things more
distant, but this is due neither to the sharpness of our own sight, nor to
the greatness of our stature, but because we are raised and borne aloft on
that giant mass."
Bernard of Chartres
Total Depravity
- "No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one
hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can
make a child live unto God. “You hath HE quickened,” is true of all who are
quickened." C.H. Spurgeon
Unconditional
Election - "Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is
written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of
it; there it stands." "I believe the man who is not willing to submit to the
electing love and sovereign grace of God, has great reason to question whether
he is a Christian at all, for the spirit that kicks against that is the spirit
of the devil, and the spirit of the unhumbled, unrenewed heart." C.H. Spurgeon
Limited Atonement
- "I may be called Antinomian or Calvinist for preaching a limited
atonement; but I had rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for
all men for whom it was intended, than a universal atonement that is not
efficacious for anybody, except the will of man be joined with it." C.H.
Spurgeon
Irresistible Grace
- "I take it that the highest proof of Christ’s power is not that he offers
salvation, not that he bids you take it if you will, but that when you reject
it, when you hate it, when you despise it, he has a power whereby he can change
your mind, make you think differently from your former thoughts, and turn you
from the error of your ways." C.H. Spurgeon
Perseverance of the Saints - "Final perseverance is the necessary evidence
of genuine conversion." C.H. Spurgeon
