"I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, 'You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself.' My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will." Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"I cannot endure the sight of God until I see him in Christ; and God cannot bear the sight of me till he sees me in Christ."
C. H. Spurgeon