If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world.… — 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
Then let every one of us, being warned by this sentence of the angel, acknowledge that he as yet cleaves to first… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The principle exercise which the children of god have is to pray. For in this way they give true proof of their… — 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
