If you deny Christ and insist on going to hell, God is not going to compel you to go the other way with a gun in your ribs. The salvation way is the Calvary way, the way of love. -- Dr. Norman Nagel, Selected Sermons, p. 203.
For, He says, you were bought with a price. Notwithstanding, not even then does He compel those who are unwilling, to serve him; but except you have grace, He says, and of your own accord and will determinest to enroll yourself under my rule, I do not compel, nor force you.
"The salvation way is the Calvary way."
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For, He says, you were bought with a price. Notwithstanding, not even then does He compel those who are unwilling, to serve him; but except you have grace, He says, and of your own accord and will determinest to enroll yourself under my rule, I do not compel, nor force you.
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St. John Chrysostom