Men insist that it is unjust and tyrannical in God to control their wills, yet see nothing unjust, nothing proud, nothing Satanic in attempting to fetter and direct the will of God. Man, it seems, cannot have his own foolish will gratified, unless the all-wise God will consent to relinquish His! Such are some of the steps in the march of Atheism.
-- Horatius Bonar. (source: ondoctrine.com)
If salvation is made to hinge or any desert or fitness in man, seen or foreseen, grace is at an end.
-- Horatius Bonar; (source: ondoctrine.com)
Man finds fault with election, as a mere system of arbitrary partiality and favoritism; and tells us if there be such a thing as total helplessness in man and sovereign election in God, then man is not to blame if he be lost. Man's entire apostasy and death in sin, so he cannot save himself, and God's entire supremacy, so that He saves whom He will, are doctrines exceedingly distasteful to human pride, but they are Scriptural.
-- Horatius Bonar; (source: ondoctrine.com)