Let this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture itself… — 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
Even if this earth is only a vestibule, we ought undoubtedly to make such a use of its blessing that we are… — 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
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
For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime… — 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
When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
If there had been any unbelief in Mary, that could not prevent God from accomplishing his work in any other way which… — 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
If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it's value? If we doubted its genuineness - we would… — 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
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
There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises. — 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
To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We are promised abundance of all good things--yet we are rich only in hunger and thirst. What would become of us if… — 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
