Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Once we’ve concluded that this earthly life of ours is a gift of divine mercy—and grateful recollection of this is our obligation—then… — 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
The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Then let every one of us, being warned by this sentence of the angel, acknowledge that he as yet cleaves to first… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“The whole life of man until he is converted to Christ is a ruinous labyrinth of wanderings.” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him;… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Pagan philosophers set up reason as the sole guide of life, of wisdom and conduct; but Christian philosophy demands of us that… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Thus it is that we may patiently pass through this life with its misery, hunger, cold, contempt, reproaches, and other troubles -… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“unless God feed us daily, the largest accumulation of the necessaries of life will be of no avail. Though” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Indeed, a Christian ought to be disposed and prepared to keep in mind that he has to reckon with God every moment… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“For this we must believe: that the mind is never seriously aroused to desire and ponder the life to come unless it… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Everything bad that they (the ungodly) can seize hold of in our life is twisted maliciously against Christ and His teaching. The… — 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
