How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
To have a proper understanding of the gospel, we must recognise that we need to lean entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, we must also be aware that he is our Advocate, and that without him we cannot approach… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Those little children have not yet any understanding to desire His blessing; but when they are presented to Him, He gently and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“How do you know yourself to be a son of God in fact as well as in name?” Answer: “Because I am… — 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
