Perfectionism is impossible in the presence of a deep sense or a profound conception of sin.

Very strange clay this, passive in the potter’s hands, to which the potter can do nothing unless it lets him!

This absurd over-estimate of the importance of the moment of dying is the direct consequence of the rejection of the Bible doctrine of Perseverance and the substitution for it of a doctrine of Perfection as the meaning of Christ being our Saviour to the uttermost.

Fads were exaggerated into fanaticisms, foibles into gospels.