"John Newton used to tell a whimsical story, and laugh at it, too, of a good woman who said, in order to prove the doctrine of election, ' Ah! sir, the Lord must have loved me before I was born, or else he would not have seen anything in me to love afterwards.' I am sure it is true in my case; I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite certain that, if God had not chosen me, I should never have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I was born, or else he never would have chosen me afterwards; and he must have elected me for reasons unknown to me, for I never could find any reason in myself why he should have looked upon me with special love."- Charles Spuregon
Source: Spurgeon, Charles. A Defence of Calvinism. Edinburgh: The Banner of Truth Trust, 2008. Print. 11
