Dalton Blackmon

“Though, according to His right & power over man, God could prescribe obedience in all things...yet, that He might elicit from man voluntary and free obedience, which alone is grateful to Him, it was His will to enter into a covenant with him by which God required obedience”
― James Arminius, The Works Of Jacobus Arminius Vol. 2.

“A thing does not come to pass because it has been foreknown or foretold; but it is foreknown and foretold because it is yet to come to pass.”
― James Arminius, The Works Of Jacobus Arminius Vol. 2.

“Have you not come to fight against invisible foes? Did you not come here to take up the warfare against your passions? For what reason did you wish to be enlisted and take your place in the ranks of Christ’s soldiers? Was it to receive rations and pay on the same terms as they, and to sit at their table like those who on the stage eat their fill and get drunk? If that is what you think, woe to you on that day of judgment, when Christ comes “to repay every man for what he has done.”
― Symeon the New Theologian, Symeon the New Theologian: The Discourses

“God himself is the object of theology.... He is the best; that is, he is the first and highest good and goodness itself, and he alone is good, as good as goodness itself, ready to communicate it as far as it can be communicated; his great liberality is matched by the treasures he possesses.... He is the greatest, and he alone is great.”
― Jacob Arminius