Arminian Quotes & Sayings

In this world, there is nothing that is right. Anything that people raise objection to, is wrong. Do people raise objection in every matter? — Dada Bhagwan

Dream are different than real life but important too. — Audrey Niffenegger

Governments should look at investment in broadband as a national priority on the grounds that having broadband access for virtually everyone creates opportunities for the development of the economy that wouldn't otherwise be available. — Vint Cerf

Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there. — Charles Spurgeon

Seeing what scares you for what it is does not lessen the terror. It still has the power to break your heart, over and over again. — Teri Terry

Mastering the lawless science of our law,- that codeless myriad of precedent, that wilderness of single instances. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Arminian view makes the final decision of our salvation rest upon a human choice, not upon a divine action. — R.C. Sproul

[T]he Papist and the Arminian on the one extremity, enthroneth Nature, and extolleth proud merit, and abaseth Christ and free grace. The Familist, libertine, and Antinomian, on a contrary extremity and opposition, turn man into a block, and make him into a mere patient in the way to heaven. — Samuel Rutherford

To square the records, however, it should be said that if the Calvinist does not rise as high, he usually stays up longer. He places more emphasis on the Holy Scriptures which never change, while his opposite number (as the newspapers say) tends to judge his spiritual condition by the state of his feelings, which change constantly. This may be the reason that so many Calvinistic churches remain orthodox for centuries, at least in doctrine, while many churches of the Arminian persuasion often go liberal in one generation. — A.W. Tozer

The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know, — Sarah Manguso

Work like an Arminian, sleep like a Calvinist. — Mark Driscoll

As Boettner so aptly observes, for the Calvinist, the atonement "is like a narrow bridge which goes all the way across the stream; for the Arminian it is like a great wide bridge that goes only half-way across." p. 41 — David N. Steele

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

... apparently sees some value in the antiquity of the doctrine of ... This means absolutely nothing to me, for whom the Scriptures alone are my sole doctrinal authority, beyond the fact that this is just one more error of the ancient fathers. I could fill pages documenting other errors that the ancient fathers held and espoused.

Response to The Classic Arminian View of Election, page 135 — Robert L. Reymond

Although upon doctrines of grace our views differ from those avowed by Arminian Methodists, we have usually found that on the great evangelical truths we are in full agreement, and we have been comforted by the belief that Wesleyans were solid upon the central doctrines. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Arminian notion of Liberty of the Will, consisting in the will's Self-determination, is repugnant to itself, and shuts itself wholly out of the world. — Jonathan Edwards

The government must rethink its strategy toward the Bedouin, or else those in the area who are armed will turn it into the war that Cairo seems to be pushing for. — John R. Bradley

In sum, the ability of what had once been a socially responsible, moderately intellectual, Arminian evangelical Methodism and a socially responsible, reasonably comprehensive, Calvinistic Presbyterianism to make any kind of a sharp Christian impact on Christian thought, society, politics, or spirituality was fatally compromised by what Barry Mack has very precisely labelled 'the tragic failure of Church Union. — Mark A. Noll