But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered. — 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
But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and… — 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
The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“[They] pervert the course of nature [by saying] the sun does not move and that it is the earth that revolves and… — 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
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to… — 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
Let this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture itself… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive… — 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
Some make man God's co-worker, to ratify election by His consent. Thus, according to them [Arminians], man's will is superior to God's… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“He is always careful to take account of the unity and harmony of Scripture teaching. His expositions are not therefore afflicted with… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
As far as sacred Scripture is concerned, however much froward men try to gnaw at it, nevertheless it clearly is crammed with… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence… — 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
First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign… — 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 points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod;… — 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
![“[They] pervert the course of nature [by saying] the sun does not move and that it is the earth that revolves and that it turns. [John Calvin illustrating his opposition to heliocentrism in a sermon due to the Bible's support of geocentrism]” quote by John Calvin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1bb/john-calvin-490_astronomy_they-pervert-the-course-of-nature-by-say_1966464.jpg)
![“The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to their own merits... [The Scripture] teaches us that we must not think of man's real value, but only of his creation in the image of God to which we owe all possible…” quote by John Calvin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/640/john-calvin-490_age_the-lord-commands-us-to-do-good-unto-all_699524.jpg)
![“Some make man God's co-worker, to ratify election by His consent. Thus, according to them [Arminians], man's will is superior to God's plan. As if Scripture taught that we are merely given the ability to believe, and not, rather, faith itself!” quote by John Calvin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/536/john-calvin-490_ability_some-make-man-god-s-co-worker-to-ratify_2669617.jpg)
