Calvinism Quote by George Bancroft

Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific…

— Abraham Kuyper

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

— Chaim Potok

No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.

— Jeremy Bentham

It appears likely that there was no normative pattern of church government in the apostolic age, and that the organizational structure of the church…

— George Eldon Ladd

“Due partly to the influence of the Genevan Academy and partly to the Institutes, Calvin’s theological influence was soon felt in various parts of…

— Justo L. González

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the…

— Claudio Hummes

“A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power.”

— Thomas Wolfe

The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.

— Anonymous

As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the…

— Ralph Adams Cram

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

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

— James Buchanan