“give what is absolutely free, because he sees nothing in us that can be a ground of salvation.” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“How do you know yourself to be a son of God in fact as well as in name?” Answer: “Because I am… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel assigned him for his defence, I cannot venture certainly to affirm... not one… — 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
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
All the more vile is the stupidity of those persons who open heaven to all the impious and unbelieving without the grace… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
When we see that the whole sum of our salvation, and every single part of it, are comprehended in Christ, we must… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any… — 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
There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel assigned him for his defense, I cannot venture certainly to affirm; not one… — 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
Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God… — 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
