“Playing rapid chess, one can lose the habit of concentrating for several hours in serious chess. That is why, if a player has big aims, he should limit his rapidplay in favour of serious chess.”
Quote by Vladimir Kramnik
“There is no form of conviction more intimate and irresistible than that which arises from the inward teaching of the Spirit.”
Source: SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY.
“Our duty, privilege, and security are in believing, not in knowing; in trusting God, and not our own understanding. They are to be pitied who have no more trustworthy teacher than themselves.”
Source: SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY.
“Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests.”
Source: Systematic Theology
“The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other.”
“It is a thoroughly anti-Christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.”
Source: What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855
“The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel.”
Source: What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855
“All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord.”
Source: What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855
“Christian humility does not consist in denying what there is of good in us; but in an abiding sense of ill-desert, and in the consciousness that what we have of good is due to the grace of God.”
Source: An Exposition of the First Epistle to the Corinthians
“All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.”
Source: Soteriology, eschatology
“The Church is everywhere represented as one. It is one body, one family, one fold, one kingdom. It is one because pervaded by one Spirit. We are all baptized into one Spirit so as to become, says the apostle, on body.”