Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief… — 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
Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Indeed, a Christian ought to be disposed and prepared to keep in mind that he has to reckon with God every moment… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Moreover, a true Christian will not ascribe any prosperity to his own diligence, industry, or good fortune, but he will acknowledge that… — 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
The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“It is not the mere fear of punishment that restrains [man] from sin. Loving and revering God as his father, honouring and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven... While joy overcomes sorrow, it… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Those little children have not yet any understanding to desire His blessing; but when they are presented to Him, He gently and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
No one in this earthly prison of the body has sufficient strength of his own to press forward with a due degree… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Pagan philosophers set up reason as the sole guide of life, of wisdom and conduct; but Christian philosophy demands of us that… — 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
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
![“It is not the mere fear of punishment that restrains [man] from sin. Loving and revering God as his father, honouring and obeying Him as his master, although there were no hell, he would revolt at the very idea of offending Him.” quote by John Calvin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1b8/john-calvin-490_christian_it-is-not-the-mere-fear-of-punishment-th_1938524.jpg)
![“No one in this earthly prison of the body has sufficient strength of his own to press forward with a due degree of watchfulness, and the great majority [of Christians] are kept down with such great weakness that they stagger and halt and even creep on the ground, and so make very slight advances.” quote by John Calvin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1b1/john-calvin-490_body_no-one-in-this-earthly-prison-of-the-bod_1212392.jpg)
