The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race,… — 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
Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
He makes this favor common to all, because it is propounded to all, and not because it is in reality extended to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when 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
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