Calvinism and Islam had this much in common: neither was…

“Calvinism and Islam had this much in common: neither was just a religilon, both were social systems.”

— David H. Finnie

Look at all the misery in the Middle East, for example. All these countries have Islam in common, and far too few dare to…

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

“Your frequent claim that we must understand religious belief as a “social construct,” produced by “societal causes,” dependent upon “social and cultural institutions,” admitting…

— Sam Harris

If you work with such people almost on the level of spiritual direction, you see that they are people who prefer a world view…

— Richard Rohr

Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.

— Ann Druyan

“In the West, of course, God has been dead for some time. What remains is religion as social belief, which is at best a…

— John Ralston Saul

Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity.…

— Swami Vivekananda

What I am trying to argue here [Save Calvinism] and in other works before this one is that the Reformed tradition as I have…

— Oliver D. Crisp

The alternative of hypothetical universalism, according to which Christ's work is sufficient for all but efficient only for the elect, was alive and well…

— Oliver D. Crisp

Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will.

— J. I. Packer

“Ah! Gentle, gracious Dove, And art thou grieved in me, That sinners should restrain thy love, And say, “It is not free: It is…

— Charles Wesley

My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

— Charles Haddon

Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of…

— Abraham Kuyper

My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Finally, the Reformers also agreed that worship should be in the vernacular and that the twofold structure of Word and sacrament be maintained. Zwingli…

— Robert E. Webber