He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much. — 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
The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all… — 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
Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a… — 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
Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven... While joy overcomes sorrow, it… — 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
On the contrary, therefore, Christ declares that the doctrine of the Gospel, though it is preached to all without exception, cannot be… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet,… — 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
Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
This is the highest honour of the Church, that, until He is united to us, the Son of God reckons himself in… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
God is undoubtedly ready to pardon whenever the sinner turns. Therefore, he does not will his death, in so far as he… — 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
Then let every one of us, being warned by this sentence of the angel, acknowledge that he as yet cleaves to first… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions,… — 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
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