It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, but will be crowned. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign… — 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 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
“One advice I give: Beware of Antichrist; for, unhappily, a love of walls has seized you; unhappily, the Church of God which… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
True it is, that he who has taken off his affection from the goods of this world has already sold all, and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The only right stewardship is that which is tested by the rule of love. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them. — 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
We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“For the Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since… — 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