Mckinley Caughman

“No man," he declares, "can have the least knowledge of true and sound, doctrine, without having been a disciple of the Scripture. Hence originates all true wisdom, when we embrace with reverence the testimony which God hath been pleased therein to deliver concerning himself. For obedience is the source, not only of an absolutely perfect and complete faith, but of all right knowledge of God" (Inst. 1, 6, 2). In”
― John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

“Many are called, but few chosen “ (Matt. xx. 16). This external call is insufficient to salvation, yet sufficient to leave men without excuse.”
― Thomas Watson, The Thomas Watson Collection

“Rationalism and sectarism then are the most dangerous enemies of our church at the present time. They are both but different sides of the one and the same principle—a one-sided false subjectivity, sundered from the authority of the objective. Rationalism is theoretic sectarism; sectarism is practical rationalism.”
― R. Scott Clark, Recovering the Reformed Confession: Our Theology, Piety, and Practice

“Further compounding the problem, biblical and theological literacy is at a new low.1 Frankly, many Protestants don’t know what the Bible says, nor what they should believe. Modern-day mysticism has swept professing Christians into the belief that if something feels right, then it is.”
― Nate Pickowicz, Why We're Protestant: An Introduction to the Five Solas of the Reformation