For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“And ye peoples, to whom God gave the liberty to choose your own magistrates, see to it, that ye do not forfeit… — 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
“give what is absolutely free, because he sees nothing in us that can be a ground of salvation.” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as… — 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
