Controversial Sayings

God's justice or righteousness is manifest as the reprobate receive the eternal punishment they deserve.

The seed of the Word of God takes root and grows fruitful only in those whom the Lord, by his eternal election, has predestined to be his children and heirs of the heavenly kingdom. To all others who, by the same counsel of God before the constitutio…

The natural gifts were corrupted in man through sin, but his supernatural gifts were stripped from him.

Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.

This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.'

For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all.

God's ultimate discrimination rests solely on the freedom and sovereign will of God.

It is not on the basis of human works, whether performed or foreseen, that God decrees to elect some based on unmerited grace and pass by (preterition) others based on proximate sinful works.

We shall never be clearly persuaded, as we ought to be, that our salvation flows from the wellspring of God's free mercy until we come to know his eternal election, which illumines God's grace by this contrast: that he does not indiscriminately adopt…

The human race is condemned to everlasting hell for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. In choosing to save some and choosing not to save others, it would appear to be no different to reprobation (double predestination), where some …

The reprobate are those whom God has determined to leave in their sins, and consequently to deliver to eternal perdition.

For the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that it can neither conceive, desire, nor design anything but what is vicious, perverted, impure, and iniquitous.

God's singular decree is the cause of Adam's fall, and through this fall, the damnation of his posterity.

The elect alone receive through regeneration [grace]. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all.

The fact that infants who die before baptism are damned is a dreadful decree, but no one can deny that God foreknew what end man was to have before he created him.

It is not in vain that he banishes all those human affections which soften our hearts; that he commands paternal love and all the benevolent feelings between brothers, relations, and friends to cease; in a word, that he almost deprives men of their n…

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 majesty of God is violated.

God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens! That is the great secret.... It is the first principle of the Gospel to know for a certainty the Character of God, and to know... that he was once a man …

I was answered that I must join none of them [the religious sects of the day], for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: 'the…

They have souls, and are subjects of salvation. Go into Cincinnati or any city, and find an educated negro, who rides in his carriage, and you will see a man who has risen by the powers of his own mind to his exalted state of respectability.