“God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask of him.” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“He only who is reduced to nothing in himself, and relies on the mercy of God is poor in spirit” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Did not God assist us, we should not only not be able to conquer, but not able even to fight.” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions — John Calvin Copy Share Image
He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God … without knowledge of God there is no knowledge of self.” — john calvin Copy Share Image
No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
God is not limited to any person, but calls freely whomsoever He pleases, and bestows on those who are called whatever rewards… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more… — 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
Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“For by a kind of mutual bond the Lord has joined together the certainty of his Word and of his Spirit so… — 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
All things being at God's disposal, and the decision of salvation or death belonging to him, he orders all things by his… — 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
The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to… — 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
“God (says he), who created all things very good, foreknew that evil would arise out of that good; and He also knew… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be… — 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
At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Convinced, however, we are not, if we look to ourselves only, and not to the Lord also” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race,… — 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
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