All John Calvin Quotes
- God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful. Aside
- Humility is the beginning of true intelligence. Beginning
- Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her… Been
- The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise… Administrators
- Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living. Adopted
- The real proof of spiritual poverty is to patiently endure the loss of worldly goods and without any regret when it pleases our heavenly Father… Any
- The marks of Jesus are imprisonment, chains, scourgings, blows and stoning in bearing testimony to the Gospel. Galatians 6:17 - 17 Finally, let no one… Bear
- The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory Christ
- 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… Astounded
- Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance...... Chance
- The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much. Avarice
- Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not… According
- Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. Christianity
- We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless… Abjure
- Some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants won't help. Days
- Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God. God
- They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office… Angel
- But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which… Abused
- Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant children,… Adam
- There are babies a span long in hell. Babies
- We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine. Delighted
- Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve Christian
- We are nowhere forbidden to laugh. Christian
- The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith. Christian
- The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust. Christian