The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.
John PiperIf you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great.
John PiperThe bloodline of Jesus is thicker, deeper, stronger than the bloodline of race, ethnicity and family.
John PiperI sometimes fear that we have so redefined conversion in terms of human decisions and have so removed any necessity of the experience of God’s Spirit, that many people think they are saved when in fact they only have Christian ideas in their head not spiritual power in their heart.
John Piper