Annie Beckstrand

“Surely the Pelagians forgot that man was not made for will, but will for man.”
― Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Augustine & The Pelagian Controversy

“As supernaturalism is the mark of Christianity at large, and evangelicalism the mark of Protestantism, so particularism is the mark of Calvinism.”
― Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, The Plan of Salvation

“In its very nature, prayer is a confession of weakness, a confession of need, of dependence, a cry for help, a reaching out for something stronger, better, more stable and trustworthy than ourselves on which to rest and depend and draw… Prayer, thus, in its very nature, because it is an act of self-abnegation, a throwing of ourselves at the feet of One recognised as higher and greater than we, and as One on whom we depend and in whom we trust, is a most beneficial influence in this hard life of ours. It places the soul in an attitude of less self-assertion and predisposes it to walk simply and humbly in the world.”
― Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, Faith and Life

“Claude Lévi-Strauss once observed that, “for the majority of the human species, and for tens of thousands of years, the idea that humanity includes every human being on the face of the earth does not exist at all. The designation stops at the border of each tribe, or linguistic”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland