It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3) — 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
“For though God has promised to do whatsoever his people may ask, yet he does not allow them an unbridled liberty to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“not that they may believe against their wills (which would be impossible), but that they may be made willing to believe who… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“The illumination of our minds by the Holy Spirit belongs to our renewal, and thus faith flows from regeneration as from its… — 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
When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
...a man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly. — 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
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
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration. — 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
Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same… — 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
Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace. — 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
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
“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
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
