“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
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
“True and sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Trie and sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.” — John Calvin 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
Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview. — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. — George Bancroft 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“...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
“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
“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
“...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
“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
“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 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
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
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
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
[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
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
“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
“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
![“It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.” quote by George Bancroft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c9c/george-bancroft-20473_calvinism_it-calvinism-established-a-religion-with_1756006.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)
![“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/quotes/img-quotes/c33/oliver-d-crisp-12863_calvinism_the-expansion-i-have-in-mind-isn-t-the-s_1930588.jpg)
![“The book [Saving Calvinism] argues in each case that the Reformed tradition is broader and deeper than we might think at first glance - not that there are people on the margins of the tradition saying crazy things we should pay attention to, but rather that there are resources within the…” quote by Oliver D. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8c0/oliver-d-crisp-12863_arguing_the-book-saving-calvinism-argues-in-each_1428357.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)
![“[Jonathan] Edwards definitely shows up in the book [Saving Calvinism]. He appears as one of the interlocutors in the chapter on free will, the other being the Southern Presbyterian theologian John Girardeau.” quote by Oliver D. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/37e/oliver-d-crisp-12863_book_jonathan-edwards-definitely-shows-up-in_710749.jpg)
![“The book [Saving Calvinism] itself is not recommending that we move the borders, so to speak. It is recommending that we look at what lies within the confessional bounds of Reformed thought.” quote by Oliver D. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e7b/oliver-d-crisp-12863_book_the-book-saving-calvinism-itself-is-not_1612566.jpg)
![“In the chapter on the nature of the atonement [in the book saving Calvinism] I argue that it is a mistake to think that penal substitution is the only option on the doctrine of atonement.” quote by Oliver D. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5fe/oliver-d-crisp-12863_arguing_in-the-chapter-on-the-nature-of-the-aton_377313.jpg)
