The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
