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In “Forever: Why You Can’t Live Without it” Pastor Paul Tripp says:

If you name yourself a Christian and you say that you have placed your trust in Jesus but are living in the here and now as if nothing in your life is sure, you have a miserable faith. You have put your faith in Jesus only to have your life end up being harder than it ever was. Surety, which will not be weakened or victimized by the trials of life, comes only as the result of a deep grasp of the unshakable reality that there will be a final restoration of all that sin has broken.

In “Essential Truths of the Christian Faith”, R. C. Sproul, with reference to the subject of predestination, said:

No one receives injustice. God is not obligated to be merciful to any or to all alike. It is His decision how merciful He chooses to be. Yet he is never guilty of being unrighteous toward anyone (see Romans 9:14-15)

Romans 9:14-15 in the NIV says:

What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

In “The Mystery of the Holy Spirit”, R. C. Sproul said:

The fact that something is mysterious does not mean that it is not true. It is possible that with further information that we will understand it, but for the present it eludes us. The Bible reminds us of this:

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. (1 Cor. 13:12)

Pastor Don Fortner says in Basic Bible Doctrine:

We must never suggest, or imply, or imagine that God must do anything, or that he must do anything in a specific way.