“God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask of him.” — 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
We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may… — 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
All things being at God's disposal, and the decision of salvation or death belonging to him, he orders all things by his… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For… — 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
When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Now the great thing is this: we are consecrated and dedicated to God in order that we may thereafter think, speak, meditate,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is a very important consideration that we are consecrated and dedicated to God; it means that we may think, speak, meditate,… — 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
For, since the fall of Adam had brought disgrace upon all his posterity, God restores those, whom He separates as His own,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed… — 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
Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain…The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
But prosperity, and the happy issue of events, ought also to be attributed to his grace, in order that he may always… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Joy and patience are far above our strength... We must persevere in prayer that he may not permit our hearts to faint...… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same… — 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
The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it… — 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… — 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
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
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
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
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith. — John Calvin Copy Share
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
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
“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
If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than… — John Calvin Copy Share
Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant… — John Calvin Copy Share
Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray. — John Calvin Copy Share
