The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, we must also be aware that he is our Advocate, and that without him we cannot approach… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
To have a proper understanding of the gospel, we must recognise that we need to lean entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
...a man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
On the contrary, therefore, Christ declares that the doctrine of the Gospel, though it is preached to all without exception, cannot be… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The whole life of Christians ought to be an exercise of piety, since they are called to sanctification. It is the office… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
This is the highest honour of the Church, that, until He is united to us, the Son of God reckons himself in… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain…The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Christ descended to us, to bear us up to the Father, and at the same time to bear us up to himself,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
When we hear any mention of our mystical union with Christ, we should remember that holiness is the channel to do it. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The denial of ourselves which Christ has so diligently commanded his disciples from the beginning will at last dominate all the desires… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Christ, therefore, died for our sins, in order to redeem or separate us from the world.” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense… — John Calvin Copy Share
But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the… — John Calvin Copy Share
For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.… — John Calvin Copy Share
It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be… — John Calvin Copy Share
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith. — John Calvin Copy Share
There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments… — John Calvin Copy Share
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so… — John Calvin Copy Share
“For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.… — John Calvin Copy Share
If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than… — John Calvin Copy Share
Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant… — John Calvin Copy Share
Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray. — John Calvin Copy Share
