Bible Quote by R. C. Sproul

“If we are to be biblical, then, the issue is not whether we should have a doctrine of predestination or not, but what kind…

— R.C. Sproul

PREDESTINATION, n. The doctrine that all things occur according to programme. . . . not be confused with that of foreordination. The difference is…

— Ambrose Bierce

“At the heart of the Reformation message was a rejection of the power of individual believers, or of the church acting on their behalf,…

— Michael Braddick

“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 believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.

— Charles Spurgeon

For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so…

— John Calvin

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

In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat…

— Ambrose Bierce

[John] Calvin treats experience as essentially visionary and revelatory from moment to moment, addressed to the individual perceiver, the individual soul. Where this is…

— Marilynne Robinson

“Before the rise of Deism, Calvin condemned the pragmatic deism which relegated God to heaven and left the government of the world to men.”

— R.J. Rushdoony

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

— Alister E. McGrath