The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease… — 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
No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Distinction between virtuous and vicious actions has been engraven by the Lord in the heart of every man. — 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
No one has rightly denied himself unless he has wholly resigned himself to the Lord and is willing to leave every detail… — 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
For so great is the difference between just and unjust, that it is visible even in the lifeless image of it. For… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
it must be plain also that we should not anxiously strive for riches and honors by relying on our own diligence or… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered;… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Because I know that I am not my own master, I offer my heart as a true sacrifice to the Lord. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Because the will renewed is the Lord's work, it is wrongly attributed to man that he obeys prevenient grace with his will… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all… — 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
Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust… — 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