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God Quotes by John Calvin

44 God quotes by John Calvin

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A world adorned by God invites us to see ourselves reflected in creation. Quotes stress that knowing God starts any knowledge, and that humility and mercy define true spirit. They also warn that resisting divine power brings misery, while arts are called divine inventions.

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It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.

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There is no wisdom but that which is focused on the fear of God.

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When the Bible speaks, God speaks.

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In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.

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There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

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When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

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Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.

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If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.

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“Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God … without knowledge of God there is no knowledge of self.”

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He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

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“He only who is reduced to nothing in himself, and relies on the mercy of God is poor in spirit”

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“Did not God assist us, we should not only not be able to conquer, but not able even to fight.”

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All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions

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“God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask of him.”

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Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.

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There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

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Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more…

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Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in…

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Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of…

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For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when…

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God is not limited to any person, but calls freely whomsoever He pleases, and bestows on those who are called whatever rewards…

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Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God…

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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race,…

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The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time,…

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We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our…

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The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to…

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All things being at God's disposal, and the decision of salvation or death belonging to him, he orders all things by his…

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“For the Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when…

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For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed…

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Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be…

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“God (says he), who created all things very good, foreknew that evil would arise out of that good; and He also knew…

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At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ…

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“For though God has promised to do whatsoever his people may ask, yet he does not allow them an unbridled liberty to…

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My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

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It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.

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... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.

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“Convinced, however, we are not, if we look to ourselves only, and not to the Lord also”

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No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.

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Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

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The most perfect way of seeking God, and the most suitable order, is not for us to attempt with bold curiosity to…

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But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the…

For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.…

It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be…

The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments…

The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

The whole gospel is contained in Christ.

For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so…

“For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.…

If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than…

Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant…

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.