Election and Predestination

All objections to predestination proceed from the wisdom of the flesh.... In the wounds of Christ alone is predestination found and understood.

— Martin Luther

The ground of the discrimination that exists among men is the sovereign will of God and that alone; but the ground of damnation to which the reprobate are consigned is sin and sin alone.

— John Calvin

None can know their election but by their conformity to Christ; for all that are chosen are chosen to sanctification.

— Matthew Henry

Election is the cause of our vocation and vocation is the sign of our election.

— Thomas Watson

Let a man go to the grammar school of faith and repentance before he goes to the university of election and predestination.

— George Whitefield

God chooses us, not because we believe, but that we may believe.

— Augustine

Those who deny election deny that God can have mercy.

— Robert Murray M’Cheyne

If once God’s electing love rises upon the soul, it never sets.

— Thomas Watson

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