I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
He makes this favor common to all, because it is propounded to all, and not because it is in reality extended to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God… — 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
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
