The law was given that grace might be sought; grace was given that the law might be fulfilled" (Augustine).
- AW Pink
Power is God's hand or arm, omniscience His eye, mercy His bowels, eternity His duration, but holiness is His beauty" (S. Charnock). It is this, supremely, which renders Him lovely to those who are delivered from sin's dominion.
- AW Pink
Manton said: "Sin knows no mother but our own heart." "And sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death":
- AW Pink
God is light (1 John 1:5), as well as love; and because He is such, sin cannot be ignored, its heinousness minimized, nor its guilt cancelled.