Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“Wesley was not concerned about speculating regarding the way the race became involved in sin.”

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“Be particularly careful in speaking of yourself: You may not, indeed, deny the work of God; but speak of it, when you…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“Grace is Christocentric—an outpouring of God’s personal nature through Christ. It is intensely personal; hence there can be no distinctions in grace…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“3. Perfectionism may manifest itself in moralism. External conformity to law is of prior importance. Every human act is regulated by law.…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“Purity is not an end in itself. Purity permits the personality to live in full expression of love to God and man.…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“LOVE takes the Harshness out of Holiness. Love takes the Incredibility out of Perfection. Love takes the Antinomianism out of Faith. Love…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“Could the dogma of particular election as understood by some theological traditions be the projection of faulty human love into the very…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“Love is the gospel message. Christian love, revealed by God in Christ, is the correction of man’s limited, selfish, selective, perverted love.…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“There is a foundational need inherent in every human person to love someone and to be loved. The self is completed and…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“Fear closes the mind and the heart and dries up the source of love.”

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“The evidence of love/ holiness is said to be fellowship, and that fellowship is the evidence of being in Christian grace and…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“Happiness is not an emotional titillation but a harmony of the whole of the self.”

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“The New Testament writer’s use of “death” to signify separation from God was well understood by the Jews, as was “life” by…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“When holiness and love are put together, the analogy of the two sides of a coin would be closer to the truth.…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“The point Wesley was making as he discussed law and faith puts his whole theology into focus. Faith, then, was originally designed…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“Man fears that God will smother out his individuality, his identity, his selfness. But God made man to find himself, in his…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“The second problem has to do with the way men appropriate grace. A question sharpens the issue. Does faith precede or follow…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“In this sense, then, sanctification is primarily the process of redemption. It is process precisely because it is moral and personal and…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“10. The most important single characteristic of the biblical meaning of perfection is its positive nature. Perfection is not, principally, the absence…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“Judas, who (though his feet had also presumably been washed) was not united in this fellowship because his heart was not with…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“Image seems to refer to the experience of “standing before God” in responsible personhood. Likeness makes sense when it is a way…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“Death seemed to depict the finality of the hopelessness which is man’s lot alienated from God. It does not, however, mean loss…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“Agape has suffered almost irreparable damage by translating it “love,” without the catharsis of careful scholarship.”

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“Holiness is wholeness and health, and everything God requires of the person from the first stirrings of conviction to the last act…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

“Christian love creates an atmosphere in which all the creative conflicts may not only exist but also be matured and fully utilized…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop