“Salvation is of the Lord”

“A man cannot be thoroughly humbled until he comes to know that salvation is utterly beyond his own powers, counsel, endeavors, will and works and is absolutely dependent upon the will, counsel and pleasure of another.” Martin Luther

“Let it be a settled principle in our religion that man’s salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man’s ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.”  J.C. Ryle