Wesley

“It is important to understand that Paul is not just using Abraham as an illustration of the gospel or of his teaching about justification by grace through faith. No, Abraham is the beginning of the gospel.”
― Christopher J.H. Wright, The Old Testament in Seven Sentences: A Small Introduction to a Vast Topic

“For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotional books, and I rather suspect that the same experience may await many others. I believe that many who find that “nothing happens” when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand. C. S. LEWIS, “ON THE READING OF OLD BOOKS”
― Matthew Barrett, None Greater: The Undomesticated Attributes of God