Calvinist Quotes

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There is something seriously wrong when we don’t take delight in what God takes delight in. As hard as it may be for us to grasp election in all of its dimensions and implications, if we find ourselves at odds in our soul with what brings glory to God, there’s a problem. Scripture is clear that election is God’s will. That means he wanted to do it. It was his good pleasure; and therefore, our aim ought to be to cultivate a like pleasure and affection in our hearts for the things God has done.

Sam Storms 

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Our minds cannot find calm repose until we arrive at the unmerited love of God.

John Calvin

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The more you know about Christ the less will you be satisfied with superficial views of him.

Charles Spurgeon (via alistairradley)

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If God should show mercy only to such as deserve it, he must show mercy to none.

Thomas Watson

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTzN7fsPUpI)

Today marks the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. I thought it would be apropos to mark the day with words from the late British pastor Martin Lloyd-Jones marking the 450th anniversary in 1967.

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There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him.

John Calvin

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The whole counsel of God, concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man's salvation, faith, and life, is either expressly set down in scripture, or by good and necessary consequence may be deduced from scripture: unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelations of the Spirit, or traditions of men.

Westminister Confession

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Modern culture is a mighty force. It is either subservient to the gospel or else it is the deadliest enemy of the gospel.

Gresham Machen

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The doctrines of grace humble a man without degrading him and exalt a man without inflating him.

Charles Hodge

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No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre.

A.A. Hodge

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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due

Jonathan Edwards

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Without absolutes revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers

John Owen

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Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.

John Calvin

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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

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Calvinism that does not humble has missed its mark.

Walter Chantry

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

Charles Haddon

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