Spurgeon Quote

"You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences: Salvation is all of the grace of God. Damnation is all of the will of man."

-C.H. Spurgeon

God is Just

 "We must not think that God does a thing because it's good and right, but rather the thing is good and right because God does it." 

- William Perkins

Whatever God Says is Just, is What Justice is.

"God is not to be measured by our understanding of what is just.  We have to be the first to admit that our understanding of virtually everything is somehow warped and twisted and affected by our own sinfulness.

In Psalm 50 and verse 21, God said, "You thought that I was altogether like you."  And certainly He is not.  In Isaiah 55 and verse 8, "My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, declares the Lord, for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts." And there is the key.  God has ways and thoughts that are to us incomprehensible, unresolvable, inscrutable.  There is a great benediction in the eleventh chapter of Paul's letter to the Romans in which he says this, verses 33 to 36, "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God.  How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways, for who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor?"  Who could know how God thinks?  Who could be so bold as to tell God how He ought to think?  "For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to Him be the glory forever.  Amen."

It is an essential understanding of God that He is holy, that His nature is holy, that He is infinitely and perfectly just, that He is morally flawless and perfect.  That He is perfection.  Everything in Him and of Him and for Him and from Him and by Him is perfect.  And so whatever He says is just, is what justice is."

~John MacArthur  

Taken from this sermon: http://www.gty.org/resources/sermons/90-273/the-doctrine-of-election-part-1

Is God Unjust?

‎"It is sometimes said that the doctrine of predestination exposes God to the charge of injustice. But this is hardly correct. We could speak of injustice only if man had a claim on God, and God owed man eternal salvation. But the situation is entirely different if men have forfeited the blessings of God, as they have. No one has the right to call God to account for electing some and rejecting others. He would have been perfectly just, if He had not saved any" 

~Louis Berkhof

His Glory

"Since the finite creation through its whole range exists as a medium through which God manifests His glory, and since it is absolutely dependent on Him, it of itself could originate no conditions which would limit or defeat the manifestation of that glory. From all eternity God has purposed to do just exactly what He is doing. He is the sovereign Ruler of the universe and 'does according to His will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay His hand, or say unto Him, What doest thou?' Daniel 4:35." 

~ Lorraine Boettner, The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination

Predestination

"No surer way will be found to fill the mind at one time with reverence, humility, patience, and gratitude, than to have it thoroughly saturated with this doctrine of Predestination."

~ Loraine Boettner