Calvinism Quotes

• 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

  Jesus, Strong, Doctrine

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2008). “The Doctrines of Grace”, p.7, Lulu.com

  65 Copy quote

  Show source

• A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty grace which he does not wish to resist enters into the man, disarms him, makes a new creature of him, and he is saved.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Grace, Wish

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spring, Believe, Founders

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 7: Sermons 348-426”, p.536, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Powerful, Evil, Spirit

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1964). “The New Park Street Pulpit: Containing Sermons Preached and Rev”

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a universal atonement that is not efficacious for anybody, except the will of men be added to it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Men, Christianity

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1858). “Sermons: 1st series [-6th series].”, p.219

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Nicknames, Opinion, Christ

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.64, Barbour Publishing

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  J. I. Packer

  Lord, Endeavor, Consistent

  11 Copy quote

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

  Charles Haddon

  Grace, Arise, Pulpit

  12 Copy quote

• For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.

  R. C. Sproul

  Salvation, Certain, Position

  5 Copy quote

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

  George Carey

  Thinking, World, May

  "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". "The Religion Report" with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mean, All Things, Eternal

  13 Copy quote

• There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!

  Abraham Kuyper

  Religious, Jesus, Squares

  Abraham Kuyper, James D. Bratt (1998). “Abraham Kuyper: A Centennial Reader”, p.461, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

  65 Copy quote

  Show source

• Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.64, Barbour Publishing

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  R. C. Sproul

  Theology, Worldview, Five

  33 Copy quote

• To suggest that the merciful, longsuffering, gracious and loving God of the Bible would invent a dreadful doctrine like Calvinism, which would have us believe it is an act of 'grace' to select only certain people for heaven and, by exclusion, others for hell, comes perilously close to blasphemy.

  Tim LaHaye

  Believe, People, Heaven

  19 Copy quote

• 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

  Christian, Responsibility, Men

  Philip Schaff, David Schley Schaff (1984). “History of the Christian Church, Volume 8 Modern Christianity the Swiss Reformation”, Eerdmans Pub Co

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, "You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself." My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Grace, Return

  21 Copy quote

• We say that Christ so died that He infallibly secured the salvation of a multitude that no man can number, who through Christ's death not only may be saved, but are saved, must be saved, and cannot by any possibility run the hazard of being anything but saved.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Running, Men, Numbers

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2012). “The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language”, p.1087, New Leaf Publishing Group

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  John Calvin

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  "The Value of Convenience: Genealogy of Technical Culture". Book by Thomas F. Tierney (p. 128), 1993.

  141 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is often reported that the Five Points of Calvinism are the conceptual hard-core of Reformed thought. That is very misleading. The Five Points supposedly originate with the Synod of Dort in the early seventeenth century. Yet we find important Reformed leaders who were signatories to that documentation who don't think that limited atonement is the right way to think about the scope of Christ's saving work. How can this be? The answer that recent historical theology has thrown up is that the canons of the Synod don't require adherence to the doctrine of limited atonement.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Thinking, Leader, Historical

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Religious, Order, Political

  6 Copy quote

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

  George Whitefield

  Lying, Forever, Evangelism

  35 Copy quote

• Calvinism that does not humble has missed its mark.

  Walter J Chantry

  Humble, Doe, Mark

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  Baseball, Religious, Encouragement

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  Philosophy, Important, Christianity

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source