Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God. — 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
Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ,… — 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
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We say, then, that Scripture clearly proves this much, that God by his eternal and immutable counsel determined once for all those… — 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
