“Christian love creates an atmosphere in which all the creative conflicts may not only exist but also be matured and fully utilized without tearing apart the fabric of Christian unity.” — Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Copy Share Image
“Wesley was not concerned about speculating regarding the way the race became involved in sin.” — Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Copy Share Image
“Be particularly careful in speaking of yourself: You may not, indeed, deny the work of God; but speak of it, when you are called thereto, in the most inoffensive manner possible. Avoid all magnificent, pompous words; indeed, you need give it no general name; neither perfection, sanctification, the second blessing, nor the having attained. Rather speak of the particulars which… — Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Copy Share
“Grace is Christocentric—an outpouring of God’s personal nature through Christ. It is intensely personal; hence there can be no distinctions in grace such as… — Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Copy Share Image
“3. Perfectionism may manifest itself in moralism. External conformity to law is of prior importance. Every human act is regulated by law. The law becomes so complex and intricate that dress styles and colors for both men and women, recreational possibilities, and every minutia of personal and corporate life are carefully proscribed. Holiness is measured by this conformity. That a… — Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Copy Share
“Purity is not an end in itself. Purity permits the personality to live in full expression of love to God and man. It is… — Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Copy Share Image
“LOVE takes the Harshness out of Holiness. Love takes the Incredibility out of Perfection. Love takes the Antinomianism out of Faith. Love takes the Moralism out of Obedience. Love takes the Gnosticism out of Cleansing. Love takes the Abstraction out of Truth. Love puts the Personal into Truth. Love puts the Ethical into Holiness. Love puts Process into Life. Love… — Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Copy Share
“Could the dogma of particular election as understood by some theological traditions be the projection of faulty human love into the very nature of… — Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Copy Share Image
“Love is the gospel message. Christian love, revealed by God in Christ, is the correction of man’s limited, selfish, selective, perverted love. It stands against any human concept of love projected into a theory of God’s nature and His way with man. It is precisely this unlimited, impartial, indestructible love that needed to be “revealed” because the best in human… — Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Copy Share
“There is a foundational need inherent in every human person to love someone and to be loved. The self is completed and integrated and wholesome only when there is rapport with others. Mental hospitals are full of people who cannot communicate with others. They distrust, dislike, hate, and finally withdraw from the world of other persons. The condition is called… — Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Copy Share
“Fear closes the mind and the heart and dries up the source of love.” — Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Copy Share Image
“The evidence of love/ holiness is said to be fellowship, and that fellowship is the evidence of being in Christian grace and the evidence… — Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Copy Share Image
“Happiness is not an emotional titillation but a harmony of the whole of the self.” — Mildred Bangs Wynkoop Copy Share Image
