“But what an mortal man do to secure his own salvation?" Mortal man can do just what God bids him do. Be can repent and believe. He can arise and follow Christ as Matthew did.” MenBelieveChristCan DoSalvationAriseSecureMortalsRepentMatthew Author:Washington Gladden
“At the cross, we see the worst that sin can do, as humanity - of which each one of us is a part - crucified the Lord. But at the cross, we also see that the most that sin can do cannot thwart God's salvation.” HumanityCan DoSinLordWorstCrossesSalvation Author:Timothy Keller
“No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please...As it is a truth both of Scripture and of experience that the unrenewed man can do nothing of himself to secure his salvation, it is essential that he should be brought to practical conviction of that truth. When thus convinced, and not before, he seeks help from the only source whence it can be obtained.” MenShouldBelieveWellsSoulHelpingCan DoSourcePleaseEssentialsSalvationConvictionConvincedScripturePracticalsDoctrineSecureSinnerDestroyingRepent Author:Charles Hodge
“If there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did from the fall of man to prepare the way for it, is in vain. Consider what greater folly could you have devised to charge upon God than this, that all those things were done so needlessly; when, instead of all this, He might only have called you forth, and committed the business to you, which you think you can do so easily.” IfsThinkingMenWayDoneMightFallChristCan DoGreaterSalvationCommittedVainFollyRighteousnessFall Of Man Book:The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - III Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - III