The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Joy and patience are far above our strength... We must persevere in prayer that he may not permit our hearts to faint...… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Distinction between virtuous and vicious actions has been engraven by the Lord in the heart of every man. — 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
For so great is the difference between just and unjust, that it is visible even in the lifeless image of it. For… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Our hearts are enfeebled by PROSPERITY so that we cannot make an effort to pray. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated… — 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
Because I know that I am not my own master, I offer my heart as a true sacrifice to the Lord. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The denial of ourselves which Christ has so diligently commanded his disciples from the beginning will at last dominate all the desires… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship. — 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
For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We must observe that the knowledge of God which we are invited to cultivate is not that which, resting satisfied with empty… — 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
