Faith consists not in ignorance, but in knowledge - knowledge not of God merely...but when we recognize God as a propitious Father… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Faith is ultimately a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“It is not necessary that faith and repentance should always precede baptism. They are only required from those whose age makes them… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The principle exercise which the children of god have is to pray. For in this way they give true proof of their… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“For the Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our… — 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
![“For the Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when it takes root in the depth of the heart . . . the heart's distrust is greater than the mind's blindness. It is harder for the heart to be furnished with assurance [of God's love] than for the mind to…” quote by John Calvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/af6/john-calvin-490_faith_for-the-word-of-god-is-not-received-by-f_3189026.jpg)
