To me, Calvinism means the placing of the eternal God at the head of all things. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will. — Charles Haddon Copy Share Image
I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world. — George Carey Copy Share Image
“The true test of your Calvinism comes just here: How low is self and how high is God in your heart? Almost… — Walter J. Chantry Copy Share Image
One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom. — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
The atonement chapter [from the book Saving Calvinism] shows how there are real riches in Reformed theology that most Christians today have… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“Calvinism furnishes us with the only theology of culture that is truly relevant for the world in which we live, because it… — Henry R. Van Til Copy Share Image
“Calvinism and Islam had this much in common: neither was just a religion; both were social systems.” — David H. Finnie Copy Share Image
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Now comes the really amazing part. What is offered to the world, to everyone who hears the gospel, is not a love… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“I confess [Election] is a hard doctrine, running contrary to our earthly ideas of fair play, but I can see no way… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part,… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
“No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
What I am trying to argue here [Save Calvinism] and in other works before this one is that the Reformed tradition as… — 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
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
In many ways the book [Saving Calvinism] is trying to argue for a more popular audience things I've said in some more… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“The doctrines of original sin, election, and effectual calling, final perseverance, and all those great truths which are called Calvinism – though… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Since in fact liturgical traditions, vestments, church vessels, etc., were immediately removed wherever Calvinism infiltrated or Reformed ideas even gained influence in… — Ernst Walter Zeeden Copy Share Image
Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“I don’t feel safe around anything when Jesus is not the Lord of it. Calvinism without Jesus is deadly; it’s fatalism, it’s… — Douglas Wilson 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
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
“Finally, the Reformers also agreed that worship should be in the vernacular and that the twofold structure of Word and sacrament be… — Robert E. Webber Copy Share Image
“Or could one seriously introduce the idea of a bad God, as it were by the back door, through a sort of… — Austin Fischer Copy Share Image
“Davie's hostility to sectarianism, and to religious 'fanaticism', was perhaps part of his appeal. He acknowledged the legacy of Calvinism in his… — Robert D. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Of all the wicked heresies and threatening movements facing the church in our day, when Westminster Seminary finally organized their faculty to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Due partly to the influence of the Genevan Academy and partly to the Institutes, Calvin’s theological influence was soon felt in various… — Justo L. González Copy Share Image
“God sovereignly decreed that man should be free to exercise moral choice, and man from the beginning has fulfilled that decree by… — A.W. Tozer 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
“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
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
“The domain of Calvinism is indeed far broader than the narrow confessional interpretation would lead us to suppose.” — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
![“The atonement chapter [from the book Saving Calvinism] shows how there are real riches in Reformed theology that most Christians today have no idea about.” quote by Oliver D. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/13b/oliver-d-crisp-12863_atonement_the-atonement-chapter-from-the-book-savi_1441682.jpg)
![“I confess [Election] is a hard doctrine, running contrary to our earthly ideas of fair play, but I can see no way around it. Read I Corinthians 6:13 and II Timothy 1:9,10. Also I Peter 1:2,19,20 and Romans 11:7. There you have it. It was good for Paul and Silas and it is good enough for me. It is…” quote by Charles Portis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c13/charles-portis-10753_calvinism_i-confess-election-is-a-hard-doctrine-ru_2510257.jpg)
![“What I am trying to argue here [Save Calvinism] and in other works before this one is that the Reformed tradition as I have characterized it is much broader and richer than many of us today imagine. It is not just about "Five Points," and it was never just about [John ] Calvin's thought.” quote by Oliver D. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2cb/oliver-d-crisp-12863_arguing_what-i-am-trying-to-argue-here-save-calv_134263.jpg)
![“In many ways the book [Saving Calvinism] is trying to argue for a more popular audience things I've said in some more scholarly works, namely, that the Reformed tradition is broader and more variegated than is often reported today, and that we need to recapture something of this in order that we…” quote by Oliver D. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2c8/oliver-d-crisp-12863_arguing_in-many-ways-the-book-saving-calvinism-i_2593601.jpg)
![“Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of election (who is saved?); the nature of the atonement (do we have to hold to penal substitution if we're Reformed?); the scope of the atonement (for whom did Christ die?)…” quote by Oliver D. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/74c/oliver-d-crisp-12863_atonement_sometimes-we-can-lose-the-wood-for-the-t_1996596.jpg)
![“I don’t feel safe around anything when Jesus is not the Lord of it. Calvinism without Jesus is deadly; it’s fatalism, it’s simply Islam. We need Jesus. When the precious doctrines [of Calvinism] are used to perpetuate gloom, severity, introspection, accusations, morbidity, slander, gnat-stringing…” quote by Douglas Wilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fe2/douglas-wilson-2686_calvinism_i-don-t-feel-safe-around-anything-when-j_469142.jpg)
![“I [...] suggest considering Byron as a Scottish poet – I say ’Scottish’, not ’Scots’, since he wrote in English. The one poet of his time with whom he could be considered to be in competition, a poet of whom he spoke invariably with the highest respect, was Sir Walter Scott. I have always seen, or…” quote by T.S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/15a/t-s-eliot-2-1761_byron_i-suggest-considering-byron-as-a-scottis_1943548.jpg)
