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# Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield

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Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield was an American professor of Reformed theology at Princeton Seminary from 1887 to 1921. He served as the last principal of the Princeton Theological Seminary from 1886 to 1902. After the death of Warfield in office, Francis Landey Patton took over the functions of the

##  Quotes by Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield

> [“The love of God is in its exercise necessarily under the control of his righteousness; and to plead that his love has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-breckinridge-warfield/the-love-of-god-is-in-its-exercise-necessarily-under-the-control-of/)

Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield

[Fitness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fitness/)

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> [“THERE ARE fundamentally only two doctrines of salvation: that salvation is from God, and that salvation is from ourselves. The former is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-breckinridge-warfield/there-are-fundamentally-only-two-doctrines-of-salvation-that/)

Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield

[Christianity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/christianity/)

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> [“As supernaturalism is the mark of Christianity at large, and evangelicalism the mark of Protestantism, so particularism is the mark of Calvinism.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-breckinridge-warfield/as-supernaturalism-is-the-mark-of-christianity-at-large-and/)

Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield

[Christianity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/christianity/)

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> [“There is nothing in us or done by us, at any stage of our earthly development, because of which we are acceptable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/benjamin-breckinridge-warfield/there-is-nothing-in-us-or-done-by-us-at-any-stage-of-our-earthly/)

Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield

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