“A recent writer opens his book with the words: ‘The present generation is impatient of theological distinctions.’ He lets the cat out of the bag when he begins the next paragraph with the words: ‘There is a good deal of common sense in this reaction against the theological hair-splitting of former times.’ He has, perhaps not unnaturally, mistaken his own opinion for the general judgment of the day. The truth is that the world, even in this generation, is made up of a good many people; and a good many varying points of view may be found represented among them. Some are very impatient of theological distinctions, and some are very patient of them: the most are patient to a fault with those they themselves wish to make, and quite impatient of those made by others. The fact is, of course, that everybody makes and must make theological distinctions, and differ only as they make sound or unsound distinctions, and through these distinctions embrace and live by truth or error.” — B.B. Warfield, Faith and Life (1916), in Selected Shorter Writings of Benjamin B. Warfield (1970), Vol. 1, p. 365