Someone asked me recently if I could produce chapter and verse to support my belief in the total depravity of man. Well, courtesy of Monergism.com, here are over 200! Due to the fact that there are so many references, I will encourage you to follow the link and read them for yourself. Meanwhile, here are some great quotes.
Total Depravity: Although fallen persons are capable of externally good acts (acts that are good for society), they cannot do anything really good, i.e., pleasing to God (Rom. 8:8). God, however, looks on the heart. And from his ultimate standpoint, fallen man has no goodness, in thought, word, or deed. He is therefore incapable of contributing anything to his salvation.John Frame
To know this God, who both condescends to share all that we are and makes us share in all that He is in Jesus Christ, is to be lifted up in His Spirit to share in God’s own self-knowing and self-loving until we are enabled to apprehend Him in some real measure in Himself beyond anything that we are capable of in ourselves. It is to be lifted out of ourselves, as it were, into God, until we know Him and love Him and enjoy Him in His eternal Reality as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in such a way that the Trinity enters into the fundamental fabric of our thinking of Him and constitutes the basic grammar of our worship and knowledge of the One God.Thomas F. Torrance (The Ground and Grammar of Theology, 155).
Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God’s majesty.John Calvin
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Surely we are depraved. I don't believe any of us can phathom our sin in light of a Holy God without understanding Who He is and what He has done.
I confess that God's love is something so great and He is so magestic that it is hard for myself to even grasp, and I consider myself as unworthily having received His grace in my life.
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