Now you get the extended portion of one of my favorite quotes:
The two great springs by which men are moved are sentiment and idea, feeling and conviction ; as these control, so the moral character will be shaped. The man of sentiment, of feeling, is the man of instability ; the man of idea, of conviction, is the man of stability : he cannot be changed until his conscience first be changed.Now, the appeal of Arminianisra is chiefly to the sentiments. Re- garding man as having the absokitely free moral control of himself, and as able at any moment to determine his own eternal state, it naturally applies itself to the arousing of his emotions. Whatever can lawfully awaken the feelings it considers expe- dient. Accordingly, the senses, above all things, must be addressed and affected. Hence, the Ar- minian is, religiously, a man of feeling, of senti- ment, and consequently disposed to all those things which interest the eye and please the ear. His morality, therefore, as depending chiefly upon the emotions, is, in the nature of the case, liable to frequent fluctuation, rising or falling with the wave of sensation upon which it rides.
Calvin- ism, on the other hand, is a system which appeals to idea rather than sentiment, to conscience rather than emotion. In its view all things are under a great and perfect system of divine laws, which operate in defiance of feeling, and wliich must be obeyed at the peril of the soul. Regarding the sinner as unable of himself even to exercise faith unto salvation, it throws him not upon his feelings, but upon his convictions, and turns him away from man and all human efforts to the God who made him. " Its grand principle is the contem- plation of the universe in God revealed in Christ. In all place, in all time, from eternity to eternity, Calvinism sees God."* Its thought is not senti- ment, but convietion — not the arousing of the sen- suous, but the quickening of the spiritual, nature. (McFetridge)
False. Calvinism appeals strictly to emotionalism - the need that so many people have to, since they understand that they are not worthy, to have a great benefactor appear out of nowhere and give them what others do not have without deserving it. It is an inferiority complex, compensated for by the myth of elitism. No different than the liberals inhabiting the current White House, for instance.