Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world. - John Charles Ryle

Without a divine call no one can be saved. We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God, unless He first called us by His grace.

Do something, by God's help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.

I cannot find in Scripture that anyone ever got to heaven merely by sincerity, or was accepted with God if he was only earnst in maintaining his own views.[…] Sincerity cannot put away sin.