“The domain of Calvinism is indeed far broader than the narrow confessional interpretation would lead us to suppose.” — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
“You can and you can't — You shall and you shan't — You will and you won't — And you will be… — Lorenzo Dow Copy Share Image
“On Pilgrim's Progress: “I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Trie and sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“True and sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“The Cross of Christ is the Aroma of Life for the elect and the Aroma of Death for the reprobate” — Royal Raj S Copy Share Image
For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
For instance, there are many mainstream Reformed theologians that deny the doctrine of "limited" atonement (the "L" in TULIP, the acrostic for… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Although upon doctrines of grace our views differ from those avowed by Arminian Methodists, we have usually found that on the great… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“When one contemplates the conquest of nature by technology one must remember that that conquest had to include our own bodies. Calvinism… — George Grant Copy Share Image
“True Calvinism always leads to the appreciation of self-denial. When the doctrines of grace are warmly preached, denial of self is necessarily… — Walter J. Chantry Copy Share Image
I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a universal atonement… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The alternative of hypothetical universalism, according to which Christ's work is sufficient for all but efficient only for the elect, was alive… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect; the other… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
It is often reported that the Five Points of Calvinism are the conceptual hard-core of Reformed thought. That is very misleading. The… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
The expansion I have in mind isn't the same as distortion. Of course, there are those who say their views represent Reformed… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor… — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“We should consider that the brightness of the Divine countenance, which even an apostle declares to be inaccessible, (1Ti 6: 16) is… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“But I do like Scotland. I like the miserable weather. I like the miserable people, the fatalism, the negativity, the violence that's… — James Robertson Copy Share Image
“Jonathan Edwards, the dear old soul, who, if his doctrine is true, is now in heaven rubbing his holy hands with glee,… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“...Calvinism has a sharply-defined starting-point of its own for the three fundamental relations of all human existence: viz., our relation to God,… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
“I [...] suggest considering Byron as a Scottish poet – I say ’Scottish’, not ’Scots’, since he wrote in English. The one… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“No man has the right to rule over another man, otherwise such a right necessarily, and immediately becomes the right of the… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
“...Puritanism has made life itself impossible. More than art, more than estheticism, life represents beauty in a thousand variations; it is indeed,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified unless we preach what is nowadays called Calvinism. It is a… — Steven J. Lawson Copy Share Image
“To explain the matter I will employ a simile, which yet, I confess is very dissimilar; but its dissimilitude is greatly in… — James Arminius Copy Share Image
“And praise God, William recovered his health again, if not his hair. He began tutoring students in his shop in the evenings… — Sam Wellman Copy Share Image
“To teach men that they possess the ability to turn from sin when they choose to do so is to hide the… — Iain H. Murray Copy Share Image
[Jonathan Edwards] he has to be engaged with on this issue if you're writing about Calvinism as I am in this book. — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least… — Paul Schrader Copy Share Image
Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Incarceration seems to have been obtained in consequence of Mrs. Packard using her reason and, not as reported, by her losing her… — Emily Mann Copy Share Image
Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Let us...once and forever put an end to that lie which says that Calvinism and an interest in evangelism are not comparable. — George Whitefield Copy Share Image
Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
![“The expansion I have in mind isn't the same as distortion. Of course, there are those who say their views represent Reformed thought, but what they end up with is a caricature of what Reformed thinking is really about. I hope I am not one of those people, but readers [of the Saving Calvinism] will…” quote by Oliver D. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c33/oliver-d-crisp-12863_calvinism_the-expansion-i-have-in-mind-isn-t-the-s_1930588.jpg)
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