Quotes About Calvinists

Non-Calvinists take God's permissive will more seriously than Calvinists and explain biblical stories such as Joseph and his brothers (gen. 50) and the crucifixion of Jesus in that way—God foresaw and permitted sinful people to do things because he saw the good that he would bring out of them.49 But God by no means foreordained or rendered them certain.

Arminians share with classical Calvinists a firm belief in human depravity and the necessity of divine initiative for salvation.

The origins of the Particular Baptists (Calvinists) date from the 1630s. In 1644 Particular Baptists of seven churches drafted the First London Confession (1644

we're gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists.

But Calvinists have never been pacifists: they have always been all too ready for a fight.

This has led George Marsden to observe that while "Calvinists had maintained that the human mind was blinded in mankind's Fall from innocence, in the Common Sense version, the intellect seemed to suffer from a slight astigmatism only."42

To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.

I can describe my books as I seem them as American, imaginative, symbolic. My literary ancestors are two other Calvinists, Hawthorne, and Melville.

Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.

The world according to Heidegger is like a prep school for Calvinists.