John Calvin Quotes

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• A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain…
• There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
• There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
• However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
• Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that…
• God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit…
• You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
• Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
• No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which…
• Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there…
• Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
• We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
• For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and…
• All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our…
• Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
• Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
• Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the…
• Concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, we must also be aware that he is our Advocate, and that without him we cannot approach God.
• Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.
• God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom…

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