Objective truth Quote by R. Alan Woods

“Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect: the other extends it…

— Philip Schaff

Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect; the other extends it…

— Philip Schaff

“The Bible gives us a theology which is more human than Calvinism, and more divine than Arminianism, and more Christian than either of them.1243”

— Philip Schaff

“The domain of Calvinism is indeed far broader than the narrow confessional interpretation would lead us to suppose.”

— Abraham Kuyper

“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

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

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

— J. I. Packer

“...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

“Whether you are Calvinists, or Arminians, or anything else, dear friends, be first and chiefly Christians—Christians—following Christ, receiving him as the great Expositor to…

— Charles Spurgeon

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

“I believe we best say yes to God's glory and sovereignty by saying no to Calvinism.”

— Austin Fischer

“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