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
When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine… — 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
Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven... While joy overcomes sorrow, it… — 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
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
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
