Calvinism and Arminianism

"Calvinism gives you ten thousand times more reason for hope than the Arminian preacher, who stands up and says, "Therei s room for everybody, but i do not think there is any special grace to make them come; if they won't come, they won't come, and there is an end of it; it is their own fault, and God will not make them come." The Word of God says they cannot come, yet the Arminian declared positively that he could if he liked.' When a man who has reached this point is told that God has determined to save sinners, that, just as He has given the Spirit to apply the merits of that sacrifice and to quicken the dead in sin- the purpose is His, the gift is His, the means are His, the power is His - this is exactly the good news that such a fainting soul needs. To a person who is no longer dependent upon himself and who feels the desperate evil of his heart there could be no more needed message than on that teaches him to look and trust in the free grace of God."

Iain Murray, The Forgotten Spurgeon, p. 90