“I believe that many brethren who preach human responsibility deliver themselves in so legal a manner as to disgust all those who love the doctrines of grace. On the other hand, I hear that, many have preached God in such a way as to drive all persons who sovereignly believe in man’s free agency entirely away from the Calvinistic side. We should not hide truth for a moment, but we should have wisdom so to preach it that there shall be no needless jarring or offending, but a gradual enlightenment of those who cannot see it at all, and a leading of weaker brethren into the full circle of gospel doctrine.”

C. H. Spurgeon, “The Holy Spirit in Connection With Our Ministry (Lecture 14),” in Lectures to My Students (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1954), 185-204