“Calvinism and Islam had this much in common: neither was just a religilon, both were social systems.” — David H. Finnie Copy Share Image
It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
We say that Christ so died that He infallibly secured the salvation of a multitude that no man can number, who through… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“What lay at the bottom of their savagery, of course, was their idiotic belief in Calvinism—beyond question the most brutal and barbaric… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“But Ockenga did not shy away from identifying himself—and his pulpit—with Calvinism, which many years prior had shaped the New England mind.… — Owen Strachan Copy Share Image
In the chapter on the nature of the atonement [in the book saving Calvinism] I argue that it is a mistake to… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
The book [Saving Calvinism] itself is not recommending that we move the borders, so to speak. It is recommending that we look… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
[Jonathan] Edwards definitely shows up in the book [Saving Calvinism]. He appears as one of the interlocutors in the chapter on free… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“If God absolutely and pretemporally decrees that particular persons shall be saved and others damned, apart from any cooperation of human freedom,… — Thomas C. Oden Copy Share Image
During my academical life, and from this time forward, I was indefatigable in my search after truth. I read all the authors… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
“If God is love (1 John 4:7) but intended Christ’s atoning death to be the propitiation for only certain people so only… — Roger E. Olson Copy Share Image
As time went by we developed a sort of ideology without ever formulating it as such. I've always said that we are… — Bernd Becher Copy Share Image
The book [Saving Calvinism] argues in each case that the Reformed tradition is broader and deeper than we might think at first… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“At present, the successful office-seeker is a good deal like the center of the earth; he weighs nothing himself, but draws everything… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Ah! Gentle, gracious Dove, And art thou grieved in me, That sinners should restrain thy love, And say, “It is not free:… — Charles Wesley Copy Share Image
“The common Calvinist experience of life as a refugee, or of being part of a host community that received refugees, led to… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines, that are… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liberty flourishes in those societies that embrace the… — Joseph C. Morecraft III Copy Share Image
“No one book of scripture can be understood by itself, any more than any one part of a tree or member of… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
“Then suddenly—or so it seemed to me—in the past two years Calvinism began emerging as an issue everywhere. Perhaps I am just… — Jerry L. Walls Copy Share Image
I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“In order to join the Congregational Church, the applicant not only had to affirm each and every tenet of Calvinism, he had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image