Dutch Theologian Quotes

Erasmus
Jacobus Arminius
Menno Simons

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.

Erasmus
Erasmus
They are separated from the mass, set apart that they may be a peculiar people to the Lord.

It does not seem proper to speak of one attribute of God as being more central and fundamental than another; but if this were permissible, the Scriptural emphasis on the holiness of God would seem to justify its selection.

God decreed to save and damn certain particular persons. This decree has its foundation in the foreknowledge of God, by which he knew from all eternity those individuals who would, through his preventing [going before] grace, believe, and, through his subsequent grace would persevere by which foreknowledge, he likewise knew those who would not believe and persevere.

Jacobus Arminius
Jacobus Arminius
We are always in danger of rejecting the creational in name of the fall and of accepting the fallen in name of creation.

I can neither teach nor live by the faith of others. I must live by my own faith as the Spirit of the Lord has taught me through His Word.

Menno Simons
Menno Simons
In the doctrine of Providence, we have a specific Christian confession exclusively possible through faith in Jesus Christ. This faith is no general, vague notion of Providence. It has a concrete focus: 'If God is for us, who is against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?' (Rom.8:31, 32).