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The resurrection of Christ is not only asserted in the Scriptures, but it is also declared to be the fundamental truth of the gospel. ‘If Christ be not risen,’ says the Apostle, ‘then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.’ ‘If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.’ It may be safely asserted that the resurrection of Christ is at once the most important, and the best authenticated fact in the history of the world.
—Charles Hodge (1797-1878), “Systematic Theology”
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Pelagius strayed much farther from the doctrine of grace than any of his predecessors; he abandoned the Christian foundation on which all of them still based themselves and renewed the self-sufficient principle of pagan philosophy, specifically that of the Stoics. Not only did he sever all connections between Adam’s sin and ours, so that neither guilt nor pollution nor even death was a consequence of the first transgression, but Christianity itself lost its absolute significance.
—Herman Bavinck (1854-1921), “Reformed Dogmatics”
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We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.
—A.W. Tozer (1897-1963), “The Pursuit of God”
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Sing, my tongue, the Savior’s glory,
of His Flesh the mystery sing;
of the Blood, all price exceeding,
shed by our immortal king.
—St. Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (1225-1274), “Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium”
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They would say,” he answered, “that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.
—C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), “That Hideous Strength”
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
—Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), “The Freedom of the Will”
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