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
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
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
Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves. — 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
At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Men are indeed to be taught that the favour of God is offered, without exception, to all who ask it; but since… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is permissible to use wine not only for necessity, but also to make us merry...... [it must be moderate] lest men… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Peace and friendship are an amiable thing among men. They be so indeed, and we ought to seek them to the uttermost… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It having been said above that God bends all the reprobate, and even Satan himself, at his will, three objections are started.… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Let this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture itself… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come… — 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
