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
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
The effect of our knowledge rather ought to be, first, to teach us reverence and fear; and, secondly, to induce us, under… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either. — 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
Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him. — 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
For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything our vision, which in itself is divided, joins… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Let this be our rule for goodwill and helpfulness, that whenever we are able to assist others we should behave as stewards… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to… — 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 until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by His fatherly care, that He is the… — 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