Rejoicing refers to moderation of spirit when the mind keeps itself in calmness under adversity and does not give indulgence to grief.… — 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
“He regards it as the highest insult for the wicked to boast of His covenant while profaning His sacred Name by their… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust. — 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
Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer. — 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
Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“O, man! learn from the precept what you ought to do; learn from correction, that it is your own fault you have… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“For though God has promised to do whatsoever his people may ask, yet he does not allow them an unbridled liberty to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“But as it was the Apostle's design to teach us what is the legitimate way of worshipping God under the New Testament,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.” — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“We ought to contemplate providence not as curious and fickle persons are wont to do but as a ground of confidence and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“May we be prepared, whatever happens, rather to undergo a hundred deaths than to turn aside from the profession of true piety,… — 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
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