B. B. Warfield

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?

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.

The Bible is the Word of God in such a way that when the Bible speaks, God speaks.

Before all else, Protestantism is, in its very essence, an appeal from all other authority to the divine authority of Holy Scripture