Adopted Quote by John Calvin

“From the biblical teaching on adoption, we learn that we are restored to a familial intimacy with God the Father, through which we are…

— Marcus Peter Johnson

Unless we ardently and prayerfully devote ourselves to Christ's righteousness we do not only faithlessly revolt from our Creator, but we also abjure him…

— John Calvin

'Now we are the sons of God'. This is the starting point of adoption. However, 'it does not yet appear what we shall be:…

— Gregory Palamas

The gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.

— J. I. Packer

In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ according to the purpose of his will to the praise of his…

— Anonymous

When we adopt—and when we encourage a culture of adoption in our churches and communities—we’re picturing something that’s true about our God. We, like…

— Russell D. Moore

Lord, by the suffering of Christ your Son you have saved is all from the death we inherited from sinful Adam. By the law…

— Anonymous

“The Word bestows adoption on us when he grants us that birth and deification which, transcending nature, come by grace from above through the…

— Andrew Louth

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: But when the fullness of the time was…

— Bible

“There are no servants in God's family, only sons and daughters, fully adopted through God's gift of grace. Redemption is through faith alone, never…

— Darlene zschech

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

— Stephen Charnock

We are not fit for a place in God's family; the idea of his loving and exalting us sinners as he loves and has…

— J. I. Packer