Sylvia

“Very strange clay this, passive in the potter’s hands, to which the potter can do nothing unless it lets him!”
― Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Studies in Perfectionism

“But some embraced Arminian sentiments, while others professed to take a middle path, and called themselves Baxterians. These displayed, not only less zeal for the salvation of sinners, and, in many cases, less purity or strictness of life, but they adopted a different strain in preaching, dwelt more on general principles of religion, and less on the vital truths of the gospel.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Documents from the Downgrade Controversy

“While these ‘five points of Calvinism’ reveal a growing interest in predestination among Calvinists, they were drawn up to protect what the Calvinists believed were important truths denied by the Arminians. They were never intended to be a summary of Calvinist belief or Calvin’s own thought.”
― Michael Reeves, The Unquenchable Flame: Discovering the Heart of the Reformation

“When we are duly apprized of our absolute dependence upon him and of our obligations to him as our Creator, Benefactor, and Lawgiver, sin will appear exceedingly sinful, and will bring a burden upon the conscience, which can only be removed by faith in the Redeemer.”
― John Newton, Memoirs of the Life of William Grimshaw