The Bible is the Word of God in such a way that when the Bible speaks, God speaks.
B. B. WARFIELD
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Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than ten hours over your books. What! Than ten hours over your books on your knees?
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield We have but one Saviour; and that one Saviour is Jesus Christ our Lord. Nothing that we are and nothing that we can do enters in the slightest measure into the ground of our acceptance with God. Jesus did it all.
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME WILL SMELL AS SWEET. BUT IT DOES NOT FOLLOW THAT WHATEVER WE CHOOSE TO CALL A ROSE WILL POSSESS THE ROSE’S FRAGRANCE.
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly problems. It is almost equally true that a clear and full apprehension of the universal providence of God is the solution of most theological problems.
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield I do not think that there is any general statement in the Bible or any part of the account of creation, either as given in Genesis 1 and 2 or elsewhere alluded to, that need be opposed to evolution.
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield There is one only and true God, but in the unity of the Godhead there are three coeternal and coequal Persons, the same in substance but distinct in subsistence.
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield He who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield Before all else, Protestantism is, in its very essence, an appeal from all other authority to the divine authority of Holy Scripture
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield The marvel of marvels is not that God, in His infinite love, has not elected all this guilty race to be saved, but that He has elected any.
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield If we compare the present state of the New Testament text with that of any other ancient writing, we must… declare it to be marvelously correct. Such has been the care with which the New Testament has been copied – a care which has doubtless grown out of true reverence for its holy words…. The New Testament is unrivaled among ancient writings in the purity of its test as actually transmitted and kept in use.
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield A firm faith in the universal providence of God is the solution of all earthly troubles.
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield It is never on account of its formal nature as a psychic act that faith is conceived in Scripture to be saving. It is not, strictly speaking, even faith in Christ that saves, but Christ that saves through faith. The saving power resides exclusively, not in the act of faith or the attitude of faith or nature of faith, but in the object of faith.
B. B. WarfieldB. B. Warfield Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving.
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