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> [It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-alexander/it-is-as-natural-and-reasonable-for-a-dependent-creature-to-apply-to/)

[Archibald Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-alexander/)

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## More by Archibald Alexander

> [Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-alexander/jesus-christ-came-into-the-world-to-save-sinners/)

[Archibald Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-alexander/)

> [All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass - "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-alexander/all-my-theology-is-reduced-to-this-narrow-compass-jesus-christ-came/)

[Archibald Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-alexander/)

> [But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-alexander/but-however-long-you-may-have-continued-in-rebellion-and-how-ever/)

[Archibald Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-alexander/)

> [Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-alexander/men-are-more-accountable-for-their-motives-than-for-anything-else-and/)

[Archibald Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-alexander/)

> [“Conviction, then, is no part of a sinner’s salvation—but the clear practical knowledge of the fact that he cannot save himself, and is entirely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-alexander/conviction-then-is-no-part-of-a-sinner-s-salvation-but-the-clear/)

[Archibald Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-alexander/)

> [Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-alexander/nature-never-makes-any-blunders-when-she-makes-a-fool-she-means-it/)

[Archibald Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-alexander/)

> [It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-alexander/it-is-commonly-said-that-men-are-forward-to-believe-whatever-is/)

[Archibald Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-alexander/)

> [God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-alexander/god-is-not-glorified-in-any-transaction-upon-earth-so-much-as-in-the/)

[Archibald Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-alexander/)

> [Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-alexander/virtue-consists-in-doing-our-duty-in-the-several-relations-we-sustain/)

[Archibald Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-alexander/)

> [If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-alexander/if-you-were-not-a-sinful-polluted-helpless-and-miserable-creature/)

[Archibald Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-alexander/)

> [It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-alexander/it-is-as-natural-and-reasonable-for-a-dependent-creature-to-apply-to/)

[Archibald Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-alexander/)

> [In reviewing the most mysterious doctrines of revelation, the ultimate appeal is to reason, not to determine whether she could have discovered these truths;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-alexander/in-reviewing-the-most-mysterious-doctrines-of-revelation-the-ultimate/)

[Archibald Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-alexander/)

> [In vain do we seek to awaken our churches to zeal in evangelism as a separate thing. To be genuine it must flow from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-alexander/in-vain-do-we-seek-to-awaken-our-churches-to-zeal-in-evangelism-as-a/)

[Archibald Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-alexander/)

> [No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-alexander/no-one-was-ever-saved-because-his-sins-were-small-no-one-was-ever/)

[Archibald Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-alexander/)

> [None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/archibald-alexander/none-can-less-afford-to-delay-than-the-aged-sinner-now-is-the-time/)

[Archibald Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/archibald-alexander/)

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