Truth Quotes by John Calvin

Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.

— John Calvin

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in…

— John Calvin

I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found…

— John Calvin

But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent…

— John Calvin

The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he…

— John Calvin

In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to…

— John Calvin

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and…

— John Calvin

“Let this, then, be a standing truth, that the whole strength of the godly consists in the grace of God, according to…

— John Calvin

Let us be peaceable as near as we can: let us relent of our own right: let us not strive for these…

— John Calvin

Whensoever God's truth is defaced or when any man turns away from the pure simplicity of the Gospel, we must not in…

— John Calvin

Peace and friendship are an amiable thing among men. They be so indeed, and we ought to seek them to the uttermost…

— John Calvin

Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain…The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every…

— John Calvin

Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to…

— John Calvin

“With respect to ceremonies, there is some appearance of a change having taken place; but it was only the use of them…

— John Calvin

Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed…

— John Calvin

“But be it so that public error must have a place in human society, still, in the kingdom of God, we must…

— John Calvin

“we must be persuaded not only that as he once formed the world, so he sustains it by his boundless power, governs…

— John Calvin

Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated…

— John Calvin

“Then let us not think that this Law is a special Law for the Jews; but let us understand that God intended…

— John Calvin