God is undoubtedly ready to pardon whenever the sinner turns. Therefore, he does not will his death, in so far as he… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride. — 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
Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
...a man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously. — 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
We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image… — 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
Some make man God's co-worker, to ratify election by His consent. Thus, according to them [Arminians], man's will is superior to God's… — 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
As far as sacred Scripture is concerned, however much froward men try to gnaw at it, nevertheless it clearly is crammed with… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of… — 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
