Great Reformed Quotes

Here are some great quotes I've collected over the years. You
will probably notice many of the quotes are admonitions to not
compromise. This is such an important issue in Christianity. More
damage is done to the community of saints by people claiming to
be "Christians" but clearly not, than by those outside of
Christianity.

Great Reformed/Calvinist Christian Quotes

1. Let the man who would hear God speak read Holy Scripture
--Martin Luther
2. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends --Martin Luther
3. Peace if possible, truth at all costs --Martin Luther
4. You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for
what you do not say --Martin Luther
5. I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than
looseness of the bowels --John Calvin
6. We see that our whole salvation and all its parts are
comprehended in Christ. We should therefore take care not to
derive the least portion of it from anywhere else --John Calvin
7. 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. --C.H. Spurgeon
8. The bounden duty of a true believer towards men who profess
to be Christians, and yet deny the Word of the Lord, and reject
the fundamentals of the Gospel, is to come out from among them
--C.H. Spurgeon
9. Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power
to enter any successful protest against it. --C.H. Spurgeon
10. At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from
those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not
alone our liberty, but our duty. --C.H. Spurgeon
11. For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate
Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology.
--C.H. Spurgeon
12. The religion of both Old and New Testaments is marked by
fervent outspoken testimonies against evil. To speak smooth
things in such a case may be sentimentalism, but it is not
Christianity. It is a betrayal of the cause of truth and
righteousness. --C.H. Spurgeon
13. I know that charity covereth a multitude of sins; but it does
not call evil good, because a good man has done it; it does not
excuse inconsistencies, because the inconsistent brother has a
high name and a fervent spirit; crookedness and worldliness are
still crookedness and worldliness, though exhibited in one who
seems to have reached no common height of attainment. --C.H.
Spurgeon
14. Free will does not enable any man to perform good works,
unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which
the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to
consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered
equally and promiscuously to all --John Calvin
15. But if the whole man is subject to the dominion of sin, surely
the will, which is its principal seat, must be bound with the
closest chains. And, indeed, if divine grace were preceded by any
will of ours, Paul could not have said that 'it is God which
worketh in us both to will and to do,' (Philip. 2: 13.) Away, then,
with all the absurd trifling which many have indulged in with
regard to preparation. --John Calvin
16. We shall now have a full definition of faith, if we say that it is
a firm and sure knowledge of the divine favor toward us, founded
on the truth of a free promise in Christ, and revealed to our
minds, and sealed on our hearts, by the Holy Spirit --John Calvin
17. By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by
which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen
with regard to every man --John Calvin
18. We say, then, that Scripture clearly proves this much, that
God by his eternal and immutable counsel determined once for
all those whom it was his pleasure one day to admit to salvation,
and those whom, on the other hand, it was his pleasure to doom
to destruction. We maintain that this counsel, as regards the
elect, is founded on his free mercy, without any respect to
human worth, while those whom he dooms to destruction are
excluded from access to life by a just and blameless, but at the
same time incomprehensible judgment --John Calvin
19. It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the
crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that
lie unseen in or upon the earth. It is often those who are
despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole
nation --John Owen
20. 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
21. A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a
coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain
silent --John Calvin
22. No true Christian is his own man --John Calvin
23. Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not
only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious;
for, though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings,
yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up
with wicked and erroneous sentiments. --John Calvin
24. Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really
your God --Martin Luther
25. A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers
nothing, is worth nothing --Martin Luther
26. Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can
give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as
beauty and health; or to the gifts of the mind, such as
understanding, skill, and wisdom! Yet men toil for them day and
night, and take no rest. Therefore God commonly gives riches to
foolish people to whom he gives nothing else --Martin Luther
27. Unless I am convicted by scripture and plain reason -- I do
not accept the authority of the popes and councils, for they have
contradicted each other -- my conscience is captive to the Word
of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything for to go against
conscience is neither right nor safe. God help me. Amen --Martin
Luther
28. Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only
useless thinking and vain idolatry --Martin Luther
29. It is the most ungodly and dangerous business to abandon
the certain and revealed will of God in order to search into the
hidden mysteries of God --Martin Luther
30. If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least
thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he
has not learned Jesus Christ rightly --Martin Luther
31. There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship,
communion or company than a good marriage --Martin Luther
32. If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go
there --Martin Luther
33. 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
34. Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of
applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it
for the benefit of your souls, and in order to practice --Jonathan
Edwards
35. Any sin is more or less heinous depending upon the honor
and majesty of the one whom we had offended. Since God is of
infinite honor, infinite majesty, and infinite holiness, the slightest
sin is of infinite consequence. The slightest sin is nothing less
than cosmic treason when we realize against whom we have
sinned --Jonathan Edwards
36. A church has no right to make anything a condition of
membership which Christ has not made a condition of salvation
--AA Hodge
37. 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 --AA Hodge
38. No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than
the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent
and believe just when they please --Charles Hodge
39. The doctrines of grace humble a man without degrading him
and exalt a man without inflating him --Charles Hodge
40. Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact
of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in
all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world --Charles
Hodge
41. Rome makes the church ultimate, the Anabaptists make the
conscience ultimate and the Reformers made the Word of God
ultimate --Greg Price
42. It holds almost universally in the history of the church, that
until a doctrine has been fully discussed in a controversial way by
men of talent and learning taking opposite sides, men's opinions
regarding it are generally obscure and indefinite, and their
language vague and confused, if not contradictory --William
Cunningham
43. Where the God-centered principles of Calvinism have been
abandoned, there has been a strong tendency downward into the
depths of man-centered naturalism or secularism. Some have
declared, rightly, we believe, that there is no consistent stopping
place between Calvinism and atheism --Ken Talbot
44. If the Scripture has more than one meaning it has no
meaning at all --John Owen
45. God works to over throw the ungodly, and increasingly the
world will come under the dominion of Christians, not by military
aggression, but by godly labor, saving, in vestment, and
orientation toward the future... This is where history is going.
The future belongs to the people of God, who obey His laws
--David Chilton
46. The modern [endtimes] notion has greatly damped the zeal
of the church for missions, and the sooner it is shown to be
unscriptural the better for the cause of God. It neither consorts
with prophecy, honours God, nor inspires the church with ardour
--Charles Spurgeon
47. If an abridged gospel is presented, in which all is bright &
beautiful, then the respect for God's Word diminishes
automatically. Insight into the consequences of the Word
concerning the broader matters of state, church & society,
suffers as a result --Cornelius Van der Waal
48. The Kingdom must be advanced not merely extensively, but
also intensively. The Church must seek to conquer not merely
every man for Christ, but also the whole of man --Greg Bahnsen
49. 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
50. [It is] essentially wholesome and necessary, for a Christian
to know, whether or not the will does any thing in those things
which pertain unto Salvation. Nay, let me tell you, this is the
very hinge upon which our discussion turns. It is the very heart
of the subject --Martin Luther
51. There can be no tolerance in a law-system for another
religion. Toleration is a device used to introduce a new law-
system as a prelude to a new intolerance... Every law-system
must maintain its existence by hostility to every other law-
system and to alien religious foundations or else it commits
suicide --RJ Rushdoony
52. The unhistorical are usually without thinking about it,
enslaved to a fairly recent past --CS Lewis
53. 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 --Westminster Confession
54. Unless we learn the unwelcome art of repressing the forward,
and rejecting the unworthy - as well as the more pleasing task of
encouraging the modest and the timid; we shall, in the midst of
all our honest zeal for the cause of Christ, be in danger of filling
the Church with drones and pests, with clerical ignorance,
imbecility, heresy, and carnal ambition, while we fondly dream
that we are preparing faithful laborer for her service --Samuel
Miller
55. The English word 'creed' is derived from the Latin 'credo',
which simply means 'I believe...' ...Anyone who thinks of God in
a particular way has a 'encreeded' a view of God, whether or not
this 'creed' is put in writing --Kenneth Gentry
56. Our Lord never called His people to help build the tower of
Babel in the hope of getting a Bible study in the basement. He
commanded us to build our own city on a hill. --David Chilton
57. The Holy Spirit is no Skeptic, & the things He has written in
our hearts are not doubts or opinions, but assertions -- surer &
more certain than sense & life itself. --Martin Luther
58. When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old
man what God had done before the creation of the world the
latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the
curious. --John Calvin
59. 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
60. So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right
well how to use evil instruments to do good. --John Calvin