John Calvin Quote by John Macarthur

“How, as John Calvin put it, “without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.” “For”

— Ian Morgan Cron

“Too many of us focus on the outward structure of character and conduct without taking the time to build the inward foundation of devotion…

— Jerry Bridges

But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!

— Bill Watterson

“For Calvin, to accept compromise when Scripture has spoken is to affront the divine majesty of the Author. What”

— Burk Parsons

“No matter how horrendous our actions become, we cannot act upon God so as to change the integrity of his character.”

— Joshua Ryan Butler

Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his…

— Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and…

— John Wesley

His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The tendency of a person to allow himself to be degraded, robbed, deceived, and exploited might be the diffidence of a God among men.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin, that one…

— Eric Hoffer

“...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

“Had Job been Calvinist or Lutheran, the book of Job would have been very different. His perplexity would then have been—how God being just,…

— George MacDonald