John Calvin — "All events are governed by God's secret plan."

"The reprobate, though they have the outward call of the Gospel, yet are not inwardly illuminated by the Spirit."

"Let us also learn that nothing is less consistent than to punish heavily the crimes whereby mortals are injured, whilst we connive at the impious errors or sacrilegious modes of worship whereby the ma…"

"Though the will of God is the highest rule of justice, and all that he wills is to be held for righteous, yet he has not deemed it sufficient for us to acquiesce in his bare will, but has added reason…"

"But if we are elected in Christ, we cannot find in ourselves the reason of our election; neither can we, by any means, comprehend it in our own understanding."

"God has a secret counsel, by which he chooses whom he will, and rejects whom he will."