It is our conviction that there are good reasons biblically and theologically for believing that God...

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“It is our conviction that there are good reasons biblically and theologically for believing that God saves all who die who do not reach a stage of moral understanding and accountability.”

- R. Albert Mohler and Daniel Akin

“…that children who happen to depart this life before an opportunity of immersing them in water, are not excluded from the kingdom of heaven.”

-John Calvin

“I testify my firm belief that all the souls of all departed infants are with God in glory. That in the decree of predestination to life, God has included all whom He decreed to take away in infancy, and that the decree of reprobation has nothing to do with them.”

-Augustus Toplady

“The infants in heaven exceed its adult population.”

- John Newton

“All dying in infancy are saved.”

- John Gill

“When I think of all the multitudes of babes that have died, who are now swarming in the streets of heaven, …enormous multitudes of children have gone streaming up to heaven, saved by the grace of God, through the death of Christ, to sing the high praises of the Lord for ever before the eternal throne. ‘Of such is the kingdom of heaven.’”

- Charles Hadden Spurgeon

“He tells us, ‘Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven,’ as though heaven was in great measure composed of the souls of redeemed infants”

- Charles Hodge

“Those little children who have not yet any understanding to desire His blessing, but when they are presented to Him,He gently and kindly receives them, and dedicates them to the Father by a solemn act of blessing.”

-John Calvin

“I cannot be sorry for the death of infants. How many storms do they escape.Nor can I doubt, in my private judgment, that they are included in the election of grace.”

-John Newton

“ Among the gross falsehoods which have been uttered againstthe Calvinist proper is the wicked calumny that we hold the damnation of little infants. A baser lie was never uttered.”

-Charles Hadden Spurgeon

“ The destiny of infants who die is determined irrespective of their choice, by an unconditional decree of God…is but to say that they are unconditionally predestined to salvation from the foundation of the world.”

-B. B. Warfield

“Infants, I believe…in God's inscrutable way, he brings them under the forgiving blood of his Son.”

-John Piper

“Instant heaven.”-John MacArthur

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