We must always be accepted for Christ's sake, or we cannot
ever be accepted at all. This is not true of us only "when we believe".
It is just as true after we have believed. It will continue to be true as long
as we live. Our need of Christ does not cease with or believing; nor does the nature
of our relation to Him or to God through Him ever alter, no matter what our attainments in
Christian behavior may be. It is always on His "blood and righteousness" alone that we
can rest. There is never anything that we are or have or do that can take His place, or that
can take a place along with Him. We are always unworthy, and all that we have or do of good
is always of pure grace.
B.B. Warfield
"Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty."
John Calvin
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