Inspirational Quotes by John Calvin

Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.

— John Calvin

When the Bible speaks, God speaks.

— John Calvin

Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

— John Calvin

Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

— John Calvin

The whole gospel is contained in Christ.

— John Calvin

In our good works nothing is our own.

— John Calvin

Free will is an empty term.

— John Calvin

Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.

— John Calvin

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.

— John Calvin

God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.

— John Calvin

Faith alone saves, but the faith that saves is not alone.

— John Calvin

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

— John Calvin

There is no wisdom but that which is focused on the fear of God.

— John Calvin

It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.

— John Calvin

The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

— John Calvin

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

— John Calvin

It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.

— John Calvin

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our…

— John Calvin

Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very…

— John Calvin

Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.

— John Calvin

Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God…

— John Calvin

We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.

— John Calvin

“It is not the mere fear of punishment that restrains [man] from sin. Loving and revering God as his father, honouring and…

— John Calvin

True faith is ever connected with hope.

— John Calvin

Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.

— John Calvin

There are babies a span long in hell.

— John Calvin

This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.'

— John Calvin

If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, but will be crowned.

— John Calvin

To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.

— John Calvin

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

— John Calvin

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

— John Calvin

Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.

— John Calvin

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

— John Calvin

I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.

— John Calvin

There can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word.

— John Calvin

It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.

— John Calvin

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.

— John Calvin

There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.

— John Calvin

Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.

— John Calvin

I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

— John Calvin