... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“It is not the mere fear of punishment that restrains [man] from sin. Loving and revering God as his father, honouring and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results. — 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
To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity. — 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
We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ. — 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
