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We have an unchanging gospel, which is not today green grass and tomorrow dry hay; but always the abiding truth of the immutable Jehovah.

Charles Spurgeon

How can you at one and the same time say that God is immutable and unchangeable, and still tell us that the Bible talks about God repenting, because repentance means to change one’s mind? And clearly the answer is this: God’s character never changes, but His dealings with people change.

Great Doctrines of the Bible (1), 61

David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Envy, it tortures the affections, it vexes the mind, it inflames the blood, it corrupts the heart, it wastes the spirits; and so it becomes man’s tormentor and man’s executioner at once.

Thomas Brooks

The nature of human beings is to be inactive unless influenced by some affection: love or hatred, desire, hope, fear, etc. These affections are the “spring of action”, the things that set us moving in our lives, that move us to engage in activities … It is the affection we call covetousness that moves a person to seek worldly profits; it is the affection we call ambition that moves a person to pursue worldly glory; it is the affection we call lust that moves a person to pursue sensual delights. Just as worldly affections are the spring of worldly actions, so the religious affections are the spring of religious actions … No-one is ever changed, either by doctrine, by hearing the Word, or by the preaching or teaching of another, unless the affections are moved by these things.

Jonathan Edwards

26  Christians in their effectual calling, are not called to idleness, but to labor in God’s vineyard, and spend their day in doing a great and laborious service.

Jonathan Edwards

A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections (18th century)

Jonathan Edwards

There is no better rock of confidence than the immutable promise of a faithful God.

Charles Spurgeon