Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church? — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Let this, then, be a standing truth, that the whole strength of the godly consists in the grace of God, according to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3) — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“The illumination of our minds by the Holy Spirit belongs to our renewal, and thus faith flows from regeneration as from its… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“Faith is ultimately a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think it is enough to have… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they… — 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
Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her… — 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
The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“For by a kind of mutual bond the Lord has joined together the certainty of his Word and of his Spirit so… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The real proof of spiritual poverty is to patiently endure the loss of worldly goods and without any regret when it pleases… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“For the Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when… — 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
