“O love that ever burnest and art never quenched! O Charity, my God, enkindle me! Thou commandest continence. Grant what thou commandest and command what thou wilt.” - Augustine “Confessions” (X, 40)( source http://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/Sermons/ByDate/1994/862_Long_for_the_Pure_Milk_of_the_Word/ )

“The amazing miracle of commanding a man who can’t respond and then giving him the power to respond is analogous to salvation. The gospel commands dead men to rise. [The gospel commands] dead men to believe. [The gospel commands] dead men to understand. [The gospel commands] dead men to repent. The gospel commands dead people to do, frankly, what they can’t do.” - John F. MacArthur Jr. “The Doctrine of Total Inability” 9/27/07 GTY

“We do well to consider that in the most moral culture this world will ever know, man will love sin. Unless you think that’s shocking, go back to the perfect environment in the Garden of Eden. And remember, there were only two people and they both chose sin. And they did it from innocence, what will humanity do from depravity? It doesn’t matter what age, doesn’t matter what kind of world they live in; depraved people love sin.” – John F. MacArthur Jr. "The Coming Earthly Kingdom of Jesus Christ" GTY 9/6