Calvinism Quote by Abraham Kuyper

To me, Calvinism means the placing of the eternal God at the head of all things.

— Charles Spurgeon

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

— J. I. Packer

One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.

— Alister E. McGrath

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

“Calvinism, as we have seen, starts from a double decree of absolute predestination, which antedates creation, and is the divine program of human history.…

— Philip Schaff

I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least encouraged to…

— Paul Schrader

To embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind.

— John Newton

Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.

— Charles Spurgeon

“...Calvinism has a sharply-defined starting-point of its own for the three fundamental relations of all human existence: viz., our relation to God, to man,…

— Abraham Kuyper

“Then suddenly—or so it seemed to me—in the past two years Calvinism began emerging as an issue everywhere. Perhaps I am just waking up,…

— Jerry L. Walls

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

— George Bancroft

“Due to their deep conviction of the sovereignty of God, the Word of God was taken very seriously by Calvinists. It became the unconditional…

— Henry R. Van Til