To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect. -John Owen

A consciousness of our powerlessness should cast us upon Him who has all power. Here then is where a vision and view of God's sovereignty helps, for it reveals His sufficiency and shows us our insufficiency. —Arthur W. Pink

I should count a life well spent, and the world well lost, if, after tasting all its experiences and facing all its problems, I had no more to show at its close, or to carry with me to another life, than the acquisition of a real, sure, humble, and grateful faith in the Eternal and Incarnate Son of God.-P. T. Forsyth

Jesus once declared that God is "kind toward the unthankful
and evil" (St. Luke 6:35), and I remember preaching a sermon on
this text to a horrified and even astonished congregation who
simply refused to believe (so I gathered afterwards) in this
astounding liberality of God. That God should be in a state of
constant fury with the wicked seemed to them only right and
proper, but that God should be kind towards those who were
defying or disobeying His laws seemed to them a monstrous
injustice. Yet I was but quoting the Son of God Himself, and I
only comment here that the terrifying risks that God takes are
part of His Nature. We do not need to explain or modify His
unremitting love towards mankind.-J. B. Phillips (1906-1982), Making Men Whole, London:Highway Press, 1952, p. 27-28