“The Institutes is not only the classic of Christian theology; it is also a model of Christian devotion.” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“He regards it as the highest insult for the wicked to boast of His covenant while profaning His sacred Name by their… — 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
If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3) — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises. — 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
The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Let this, then, be a standing truth, that the whole strength of the godly consists in the grace of God, according to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he… — 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
Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they… — 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
Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to… — 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
God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to… — 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
The real proof of spiritual poverty is to patiently endure the loss of worldly goods and without any regret when it pleases… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Faith consists not in ignorance, but in knowledge - knowledge not of God merely...but when we recognize God as a propitious Father… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Rejoicing refers to moderation of spirit when the mind keeps itself in calmness under adversity and does not give indulgence to grief.… — 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
“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
“Faith is ultimately a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“It is not necessary that faith and repentance should always precede baptism. They are only required from those whose age makes them… — 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
