Between Precipices
The Christian life is not a middle way between extremes but a narrow way between precipices. It involves living by faith through self-denial and waging a holy war in the midst of a beckoning yet hostile world. And what a war it is, for the world does not fight fairly or cleanly, does not agree to cease-fires, and does not sign peace treaties.
Joel Beeke, A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2012), 853.