Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit? — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh. — 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
Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him;… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in… — 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 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
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
Men are indeed to be taught that the favour of God is offered, without exception, to all who ask it; but since… — 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
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
In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have… — 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
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
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
The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word. — 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
