To make human action the cause of divine blessing is to overturn the whole nature of salvation. - Iain Murray

While God has appointed means and promises, such is our spiritual incapacity that if it were not for his enabling grace no good would ever be done by us. To make human action the cause of divine blessing is to overturn the whole nature of salvation. It would be the same as interpreting our Lord’s words, ‘Daughter, your faith has made you well,’ as though he was indeed saying the woman was the author of her own new health. 

- Iain Murray

from Pentecost – Today? The Biblical Basis for Understanding Revival, by Iain H. Murray 

(p. 64)

Iain Hamish Murray is a British pastor and author. He was educated in the Isle of Man and at the University of Durham before entering ministry in 1955. He served as assistant to Martyn Lloyd-Jones at Westminster Chapel (1956–59) and subsequently at Grove Chapel, London (1961–69) and St. Giles Presbyterian Church, Sydney, Australia, (1981–84). 

In 1957 he and Jack Cullum founded the Reformed publishing house, the Banner of Truth Trust, of which he continues to serve as a trustee.