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
My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will. — Charles Haddon 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth. — Charles Spurgeon 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
“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
“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
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
“True and sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.” — John Calvin 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
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
“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 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
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