Quotes about Calvinism

The quality which gave such force to Calvin's teaching was his close adherence to the Bible as an inspired and authoritative book.

the Arminian, in making it apply to all men, reduces its effectiveness to such an extent that it becomes practically no atonement at all.

We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

In short, doctrinally, Puritanism was a kind of vigorous Calvinism; experientially, it was warm and contagious; evangelistically, it was aggressive, yet tender; ecclesiastically, it was theocentric and worshipful; and politically, it aimed to be scriptural and balanced.

Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.

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.

Arminians pretend, very speciously, that Christ died for all men, yet, in effect, they make him die for no one man at all.

How do they and their fellows, the Jesuits,19 exclaim upon poor Calvin, for sometimes using the hard word of compulsion, describing the effectual, powerful working of the providence of God in the actions of men; but they can fasten the same term on the will of God, and no harm done!

The true Calvinist is someone whose whole life is devoted to the glory of God.

The 'last issue of history' will be a conflict between 'Atheism and its countless forms and Calvinism. The other systems will be crushed as the half-rotten ice between two great bergs.

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

Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That's why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.