But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent… — 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… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
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
Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod;… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign… — 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
The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We say, then, that Scripture clearly proves this much, that God by his eternal and immutable counsel determined once for all those… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Let this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture itself… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and… — 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
“[They] pervert the course of nature [by saying] the sun does not move and that it is the earth that revolves and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
All the more vile is the stupidity of those persons who open heaven to all the impious and unbelieving without the grace… — 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
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
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
The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the… — 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
