“God's holiness is not an unloving holiness, and God's love is not an unholy love. It is only by keeping these two primary moral qualities of the divine being closely related that we may rightly behold the character of God. (p. 98)” LoveGodHoliness Book:The Living God: Systemic Theology: Volume One Source: The Living God: Systemic Theology: Volume One
“Grace works ahead of us to draw us toward faith, to begin its work in us. Even the first fragile intuition of conviction of sin, the first intimation of our need of God, is the work of preparing, prevening grace, which draws us gradually toward wishing to please God. Grace is working quietly at the point of our desiring, bringing us in time to despair over our own unrighteousness, challenging our perverse dispositions, so that our distorted wills cease gradually to resist the gift of God.” GodSinChristianityGraceConvictionPrevenient GraceArminanism Book:John Wesley's scriptural Christianity Source: John Wesley's scriptural Christianity
“The Spirit of God draws or leads the sinner from one phase to another, gradually, in proportion as one is found having a disposition to responsive hearing. Grace flows ordinarily from prevenient grace through the grace of baptism through the grace of justification toward sanctifying grace leading toward consummation in glory. The power by which one cooperates with grace is grace itself. In this way God draws all to himself, eliciting a hunger for righteousness and a desire for truth.” GodGraceJustificationBaptismThe Holy SpiritArminianismPrevenient Grace Book:The Transforming Power of Grace Source: The Transforming Power of Grace