Humans Quotes by John Calvin

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance…

— John Calvin

The Human heart is an idol factory.

— John Calvin

Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

— John Calvin

The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

— John Calvin

To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.

— John Calvin

How can it be said that the weakness of the human will is aided so as to enable it to aspire effectually…

— John Calvin

They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission - as if God sat in a…

— John Calvin

The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it.. We must adore…

— John Calvin

The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving…

— John Calvin

The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of…

— John Calvin

We say, then, that Scripture clearly proves this much, that God by his eternal and immutable counsel determined once for all those…

— John Calvin

As far as sacred Scripture is concerned, however much froward men try to gnaw at it, nevertheless it clearly is crammed with…

— John Calvin

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

— John Calvin

Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of…

— John Calvin

For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime…

— John Calvin

This is the highest honour of the Church, that, until He is united to us, the Son of God reckons himself in…

— John Calvin

Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the…

— John Calvin

Let this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture itself…

— John Calvin

Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love…

— John Calvin