Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve — John Calvin Copy Share Image
When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“They who strive to build up a firm faith in Scripture through disputation are doing things backwards.” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“not that they may believe against their wills (which would be impossible), but that they may be made willing to believe who… — 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
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
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
“The illumination of our minds by the Holy Spirit belongs to our renewal, and thus faith flows from regeneration as from its… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Faith acquires what the Law requires; nay, the Law requires, in order that faith may acquire what is thus required; nay, more,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“For the Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when… — 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
Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“For though God has promised to do whatsoever his people may ask, yet he does not allow them an unbridled liberty to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church? — 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
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The principle exercise which the children of god have is to pray. For in this way they give true proof of their… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self… — 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
![“For the Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when it takes root in the depth of the heart . . . the heart's distrust is greater than the mind's blindness. It is harder for the heart to be furnished with assurance [of God's love] than for the mind to…” quote by John Calvin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/af6/john-calvin-490_faith_for-the-word-of-god-is-not-received-by-f_3189026.jpg)
