There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
No one has rightly denied himself unless he has wholly resigned himself to the Lord and is willing to leave every detail… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It having been said above that God bends all the reprobate, and even Satan himself, at his will, three objections are started.… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed. — 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
