If you want to find an instance of true gratitude for the infinite grace of God, do not go to those who think of God’s love as something that cost nothing, but go rather to those who in agony of soul have faced the awful fact of the guilt of sin, and then have come to know with a trembling wonder that the miracle of all miracles has been accomplished, and that the eternal Son has died in their stead. – Gresham Machen

source: “What the Bible Teaches about Jesus,” in Selected Short Writings, ed. D. G. Hart (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2004), 32