The effect of our knowledge rather ought to be, first, to teach us reverence and fear; and, secondly, to induce us, under… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The whole life of Christians ought to be an exercise of piety, since they are called to sanctification. It is the office… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of… — 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
The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law — John Calvin Copy Share Image
To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as… — 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
![“The effect of our knowledge rather ought to be, first, to teach us reverence and fear; and, secondly, to induce us, under its guidance and teaching, to ask every good thing from [God], and, when it is received, ascribe it to him. For how can the idea of God enter your mind without instantly giving…” quote by John Calvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/27f/john-calvin-490_authority_the-effect-of-our-knowledge-rather-ought_371358.jpg)
