“Jesus gives his bride full liberty to take all that He has to be their own; He loves them to help themselves freely to His treasure and appropriate as much as they can possibly carry. The boundless fullness of His all-sufficiency is as free to the believer as the air he breathes.”

- Charles Spurgeon, Morning by Morning (New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House, 2001), 190.

“Imagine that your prayer is a poorly dressed beggar reeking of alcohol and body odor, stumbling toward the palace of the great king. You have become your prayer. As you shuffle toward the barred gate, the guards stiffen. Your smell has preceded you. You stammer out a message for the great king: ‘I want to see the king.’

Your words are barely intelligible, but you whisper one final word, ‘Jesus, I come in the name of Jesus.’ At the name of Jesus, as if by magic, the palace comes alive. The guards snap to attention, bowing low in front of you. Lights come on, and the door flies open. You are ushered into the palace and down a long hallway into the throne room of the great king, who comes running to you and wraps you in his arms.

The name of Jesus gives my prayers royal access. They get through. Jesus isn’t just the Savior of my soul. He’s also the Savior of my prayers. My prayers come before the throne of God as the prayers of Jesus. ‘Asking in Jesus’ name’ isn’t another thing I have to get right so my prayers are perfect. Is it one more gift of God because my prayers are so imperfect.”

—Paul Miller, A Praying Life (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress 2009), 135

“..the meaning of atonement is not to be found in our penitence evoked by the sight of Calvary, but rather in what God did when in Christ on the cross He took our place and bore our sin.”

- John Stott, The Cross of Christ (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1986), 9.

“The Love of Christ!
Far, far beyond my finite mind,
Past finding out to mortal man;
Though searching still, I yet despair
Its farthest bounds to span.

O hidden love!
A curtain veils Christ’s secret heart
That none can ever fully draw,
With fold on fold of unseen depths
I scarcely knew before.

But now at length,
With pressure of exquisite joy,
That love surrounds and burdens me
Until my soul can hardly bear
The weight of ecstasy.

Sweet love of Christ!
Revealed in part yet hidden still,
Unsearchable, but strangely near;
And heaven would not be heaven to me
Unless His love were there!”

Faith Cook, Grace In Winter (Carlisle, Pa.: The Banner of Truth, 1989), 36.

“The Father in the gift of His Son has put Himself under eternal obligation to returning sons. Having satisfied the demands of His own holy law, the Father must open His mighty arms and embrace every returning son. And he must do it every day. He has promised to do it (Luke 15:11-32; 1 John 1:8-10), and God cannot lie (Heb. 6:13-20).”

- C. John Miller, Repentance and 21st Century Man (Fort Washington, Pa.: CLC Publications, 2003), 10.

“There is no other honor equal to the estimate of truthfulness and righteousness with which we honor him whom we trust.  Could we ascribe to a man anything greater than truthfulness and righteousness and perfect goodness?  On the other hand, there is no way we can show greater contempt for a man than to regard him as false and wicked and to be suspicious of him, as we do when we do not trust him.  So when the soul firmly trusts God’s promises, it regards him as truthful and righteous.  Nothing more excellent than this can be ascribed to God.  The very highest worship of God is this that we ascribe to him truthfulness, righteousness, and whatever else should be ascribed to one who is trusted.”

- Martin Luther, On Christian Liberty (Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress, 2003), 16.

“Everything good that God has made and that God sustains is ruined when it is not done in reliance on God’s grace and in pursuit of God’s glory”.

- John Piper, Finally Alive (Scotland, Great Britain: Christian Focus Publications, 2009), 58.