Calvinism Quotes

Calvinism Quote of the day

Let us...once and forever put an end to that lie which says that Calvinism and an interest in evangelism are not comparable.

Reformed theology so far transcends the mere five points of Calvinism that it is an entire worldview.

Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.

It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.

To me, Calvinism means the placing of the eternal God at the head of all things.

My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

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

I think what Calvinism may offer us is that God's in charge of his world.

Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.

It is the Godfather, not God the Father, who makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

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

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.

Calvinism that does not humble has missed its mark.

Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.

The book [Saving Calvinism] itself is not recommending that we move the borders, so to speak. It is recommending that we look at what lies within the confessional bounds of Reformed thought.

[Jonathan Edwards] he has to be engaged with on this issue if you're writing about Calvinism as I am in this book.

In the chapter on the nature of the atonement [in the book saving Calvinism] I argue that it is a mistake to think that penal substitution is the only option on the doctrine of atonement.

The atonement chapter [from the book Saving Calvinism] shows how there are real riches in Reformed theology that most Christians today have no idea about.

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

I was raised as a Calvinist, which is doctrine-driven. And though there are many things wrong with Calvinism, you are at least encouraged to argue about things.

No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and express terms, than Arminius has done.

How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by such grace as he may either concur or resist?

The God of Romans 9–11 finds ways to show mercy, even when the facts clamor for judgment. This doesn’t sound much like Calvinism to me, but it does sound a whole lot like Jesus.

Dream of yoking a gnat with an archangel, and then imagine that you can help your Lord in the work of salvation.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

What is most decisive is God's Joy Project is not that we fully grasp it, but that our sovereign God fully grasps us.

Tyranny flourishes in those societies that reject the Reformed Faith. Tyranny is squelched and liberty flourishes in those societies that embrace the Reformed Faith in all its fullness.

We can no more assist the Holy Spirit in the quickening of our souls to spiritual life than Lazarus could help Jesus raise him from the dead.

No one book of scripture can be understood by itself, any more than any one part of a tree or member of the body can be understood without reference to the whole of which it is a part.

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

Christianity and communism cannot be reconciled

A God less than sovereign could not bestow moral freedom upon His creatures. He would be afraid to do so.