To me, Calvinism means the placing of the eternal God at the head of all things. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world. — George Carey Copy Share Image
My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will. — Charles Haddon 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
“I believe we best say yes to God's glory and sovereignty by saying no to Calvinism.” — Austin Fischer 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
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
“Calvinism and Islam had this much in common: neither was just a religion; both were social systems.” — David H. Finnie 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
“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
“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
“True Calvinism always leads to the appreciation of self-denial. When the doctrines of grace are warmly preached, denial of self is necessarily… — Walter J. Chantry Copy Share Image
“When one contemplates the conquest of nature by technology one must remember that that conquest had to include our own bodies. Calvinism… — George Grant Copy Share Image
Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed… — Martha Beck 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
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
Digging into the creation of the Puritan mind-set involved really trying to wrap my head around extreme Calvinism and what that's all… — Robert Eggers 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
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
“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
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
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
“Calvinism, as we have seen, starts from a double decree of absolute predestination, which antedates creation, and is the divine program of… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
“Due to their deep conviction of the sovereignty of God, the Word of God was taken very seriously by Calvinists. It became… — Henry R. Van Til 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“He had never been around such searching souls as he found in Piddington. They nurtured him, much as the women of nearby… — Sam Wellman 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
“Lincoln was raised in the thick of Old School Calvinism. In Kentucky and Indiana, his parents belonged to a fire-breathing sect called… — Joshua Wolf Shenk 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
![“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/i/2cb/oliver-d-crisp-12863_arguing_what-i-am-trying-to-argue-here-save-calv_134263.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/i/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/i/fe2/douglas-wilson-2686_calvinism_i-don-t-feel-safe-around-anything-when-j_469142.png)
