There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Just as the light of the sun, while it invigorates a living and animated body, produces effluvia in a carcass; so it… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our… — 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
