“The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.” — 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
“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
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
When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly. — 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
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
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 place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises. — 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
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
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
