For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world.… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the… — 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
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine… — 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
The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The very word baptize, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient church. — 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
