Quotes About Calvinism
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“Calvinism emphasizes divine sovereignty and free grace; Arminianism emphasizes human responsibility. The one restricts the saving grace to the elect; the other extends it to all men on the condition of faith. Both are right in what they assert; both are wrong in what they deny. If one important truth is pressed to the exclusion of another truth of equal importance, it becomes an error, and loses its hold upon the conscience. The Bible gives us a theology which is more human than Calvinism and more divine than Arminianism, and more Christian than either of them.”
— Philip Schaff —
“I believe we best say yes to God's glory and sovereignty by saying no to Calvinism.”
— Austin Fischer
— Abraham Kuyper
“Calvinism, in comparison, appears to be more closely related to the hard legalism and the active enterprise of bourgeois-capitalistic entrepreneurs. Finally,”
— Max Weber
— David Halberstam
“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.”
— Ralph Adams Cram
“On Pilgrim's Progress: I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.”
— Chaim Potok
“He offered a crystal-clear notion of right and wrong, an unambiguous definition of good and evil. And although his perspective was absolutist and unyielding, it presented a kinder, gentler alternative to Calvinism, which had been the ecclesiastical status quo in the early years of the American republic.”
— Jon Krakauer
“Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park.”
— David Halberstam
“There is thus a very great deal in common between the enthusiasm with which Mohammed's teaching attacked the priesthood, the Mass and the sacraments, and the enthusiasm with which Calvinism, the central motive force of the Reformation, did the same.”
— Hilaire Belloc
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.”
— George Bancroft
“Calvinism that does not humble has missed its mark.”
— Walter J Chantry
— R.C. Sproul
“Calvinism is the consistent endeavor to acknowledge the Creator as the Lord, working all things after the counsel of His will.”
— J.I. Packer
— Alister E. McGrath
“In Calvinism and sectarianism man became more and more transformed into an abstract moral subject, as in Descartes he was considered an epistemological subject.”
— Paul Tillich
— George Whitefield
“It is no novelty, then, that I am preaching; no new doctrine. I love to proclaim these strong old doctrines, that are called by nickname Calvinism, but which are surely and verily the revealed truth of God as it is in Christ Jesus.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“To me, Calvinism means the placing of the eternal God at the head of all things.”
— Charles Spurgeon
— Charles Spurgeon
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