"As the power of Christianity declined through the……" — Ralph Adams Cram
"As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased."
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11 Quotes by Ralph Adams Cram
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Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
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Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain…
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble…
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In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in…
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men…
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing…
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True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing,…
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With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the…
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More Calvinism Quotes
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Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became…
— David Halberstam
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Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect;…
— Philip Schaff
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Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.
— Charles Spurgeon
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To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dreadful doctrine like Calvinism,…
— Tim LaHaye
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In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.
— Chaim Potok
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Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church…
— Abraham Kuyper
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It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.
— R C Sproul
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Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.
— Charles Spurgeon
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One of the best introductions to the history and ideas of Calvinism, packed with insight and wisdom.
— Alister E. McGrath
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I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world.
— George Carey
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