“He parted with the greatest glory, he underwent the greatest misery, he doth the greatest works that ever were, because he loves his spouse, - because he values believers.

What can more, what can farther be spoekn? How little is the depth of that which is spoken fathomed! How unable are we to look into the mysterious recesses of it! He so loves, so values his saints, as that, having from eternity undertaken to bring them to God, he rejoices his soul in the thoughts of it; and pursues his design through heaven and hell, life and death, by suffering and doing, in mercy and wtih power; and ceaseth not until he bring it to perfection.”

- John Owen, Communion with God, (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth Trust, 2004), 139.