If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, but will be crowned. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which… — 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
But prosperity, and the happy issue of events, ought also to be attributed to his grace, in order that he may always… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“in Augustine with this expression, - "God crowns not our merits but his own gifts; and the name of reward is given… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
As by the revolt of the first man, the image of God could be effaced from his mind and soul, so there… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Men are indeed to be taught that the favour of God is offered, without exception, to all who ask it; but since… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
God is undoubtedly ready to pardon whenever the sinner turns. Therefore, he does not will his death, in so far as he… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is entirely the work of grace and a benefit conferred by it that our heart is changed from a stony one… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Because the will renewed is the Lord's work, it is wrongly attributed to man that he obeys prevenient grace with his will… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
All the more vile is the stupidity of those persons who open heaven to all the impious and unbelieving without the grace… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of… — 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
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