"God wants us to find our primary joy in our objectively declared justification, not in our subjectively perceived sanctification. "
"The Discomfort of the Justified Life" in Justified: Essays on the Doctrine of Justification, ed. Ryan Glomsrud & Michael Horton
(Modern Reformation, 2010), 94
Let no man ever persuade you that any religion deserves to be called the Gospel, in which repentance toward God has not a most prominent place. That is no Gospel in which repentance is not a principal thing. It is the Gospel of man – not of God. It comes from earth – not from heaven. It is not the Gospel at all – it is rank antinomianism and nothing else. So long as you hug your sins, and cleave to your sins, and will have your sins – your sins are not forgiven.
So long as you do not repent of sin, the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is no Gospel to your soul. Christ is a Savior from sin – not a Savior for man in sin. If a man will have his sins, the day will come when that merciful Savior will say to him, “Depart from Me, you worker of iniquity! Depart into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.” (Matt. 25:41.)
~ J.C. Ryle
Old Paths, “Repentance”, [Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1999], 415, 416. 
One Thing We Need In 2011
"What do we need to stay strong in 2011? I can summarize it in three words. We need . . .
Tenacious winsome courage."
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"Yes, you and I need to be committed to change, but not in a way that hopes for a big event of transformation, but in a way that finds joy in and is faithful to a day-by-day, step-by-step process of insight, confession, repentance and faith. And in those little moments we commit ourselves to remember the words of Paul in Romans 8:32—
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us, how will he not also with him freely give us all things.
So, we wake up each day committed to live in the small moments of our daily lives with open eyes and humbly expectant hearts."
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Soli Deo Gloria
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