For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living. — 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
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
All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful… — 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
Even if this earth is only a vestibule, we ought undoubtedly to make such a use of its blessing that we are… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Indeed, a Christian ought to be disposed and prepared to keep in mind that he has to reckon with God every moment… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is entirely the work of grace and a benefit conferred by it that our heart is changed from a stony one… — 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
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished. — 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
Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to… — 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
