The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory — John Calvin Copy Share Image
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
Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The marks of Jesus are imprisonment, chains, scourgings, blows and stoning in bearing testimony to the Gospel. Galatians 6:17 - 17 Finally,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
After 50 years, is it not clear that God has raised up new illnesses connected with fornication? From where do these things… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
True it is, that he who has taken off his affection from the goods of this world has already sold all, and… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of… — 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
Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven... While joy overcomes sorrow, it… — 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
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
No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this… — 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
![“After 50 years, is it not clear that God has raised up new illnesses connected with fornication? From where do these things come if not from the hand of God? [In response to these diseases] The world was astounded, and people were terrified for a time, but they have not, to this day, observed the…” quote by John Calvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/611/john-calvin-490_astounded_after-50-years-is-it-not-clear-that-god_1427159.jpg)
