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.

You will be damned if you do.—And you will be damned if you don't [definition of Calvinism].

Built into both Calvinism and Catholicism is the implicit threat that anything truly wonderful should also make you feel guilty, especially the skin we were all born in.

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.

Calvinism, in comparison, appears to be more closely related to the hard legalism and the active enterprise of bourgeois-capitalistic entrepreneurs. Finally

Calvinist believers were psychologically isolated. Their distance from God could only be precariously bridged, and their inner tensions only partially relieved, by unstinting, purposeful labor.

For Calvin and the Puritans, "everyone was equally base in the sight of God." Since no one was deserving, salvation had to depend on God's grace.