It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world.… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Peace and friendship are an amiable thing among men. They be so indeed, and we ought to seek them to the uttermost… — 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
It is not after we were reconciled by the blood of his Son that God began to love us, but before the… — 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
There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the… — 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
For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For it was not after we were reconciled to him by the blood of his Son that he began to love us,… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed… — 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
The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
We are promised abundance of all good things--yet we are rich only in hunger and thirst. What would become of us if… — 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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