”The word “fair” and the word “loving” as defined by whom? I tell people all the time, you want fair? Fair sends everybody to hell. You want what is just? Justice sends everyone to hell. I think what you want is grace, and grace is at the discretion of the giver. Is it not? And forgiveness is at the discretion of the forgiver, is it not? And [forgiveness is] on the terms of the one who has been offended.” - John MacArthur “The Doctrine of Actual Atonement – Part 2” GTY 10/2/07 Said in response to a comment that election and limited atonement don’t sound loving or fair.

“The very thing that sinners are hoping will save them on the Day of Judgment, the goodness of God, will be the very thing that will condemn them. Because if God is good, He must, by nature, punish murderers, rapists, thieves, liars, fornicators, blasphemers. God is going to punish sin wherever it is found." - Ray Comfort, “Hell’s Best Kept Secret”

“You must teach children ‘NO!’ You will be spanked if you do what you want here. And if you continue [to follow your own will] to the end of your life you’ll go to hell, which is why we spank lovingly. If kids don’t learn the meaning of the wrath of God and the love of God from their parents, who love them, where are they going to learn it? [If] somebody tries, later on, to convince them that a loving God is also a wrathful God, if they haven’t seen that in daddy – that daddy can hug, and kiss, and roll around on the floor, and be sweet and pure and kind and gentle, and really have fire in his eyes when you disobey – if a kid can’t put that together in a parent, how’s he going to put it together in God?” - John Piper

(“Dead to the Law, Serving in the Spirit, Part 3” by John Piper, originally preached on February 11, 2001 (Transcribed from the 11/30/2006 audio Netcast))