John Calvin Quote by Bryan Chapell Download Open image ““John Calvin said he constantly “studied to be simple.”” — Bryan Chapell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare John Calvin
“No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
[John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his treatise on… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Calvin: As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
“I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire.” — Michael S. Horton Copy Share Image
“…a kind of Calvinist in reverse; that is, he was uncompromisingly bohemian” — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
“I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.” Augustine/John Calvin” — Augustine Copy Share Image
[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first. — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“For Calvin, to accept compromise when Scripture has spoken is to affront the divine majesty of the Author. What” — Burk Parsons Copy Share Image
“so I have also tried to be honest. And the best way I have found to be honest is to tell you my story:… — Austin Fischer Copy Share Image
“But Ockenga did not shy away from identifying himself—and his pulpit—with Calvinism, which many years prior had shaped the New England mind. “Whatever we… — Owen Strachan Copy Share Image
“Henry David Thoreau (who wrote, “I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest… — Greg McKeown Copy Share Image
“Divine blessing flows from God’s mercy rather than from our merit.” — Bryan Chapell Copy Share Image
“Grace is never out of view. Grace secures our relationship with God despite our sin. Grace maintains our forgiveness despite the inadequacies of our… — Bryan Chapell Copy Share Image
“On the contrary, we speak as men approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel.” — Bryan Chapell Copy Share Image
“There is a natural human inclination to take advantage of grace in order to excuse sin.” — Bryan Chapell Copy Share Image
“Garrison explains why concreteness empowers illustrations and furthers understanding: “If I were to talk at length about my having been deeply moved by watching… — Bryan Chapell Copy Share Image
“Because I am united to Christ, God’s love for me is not as variable as my loyalty to him…. God will not love me… — Bryan Chapell Copy Share Image
“Success in the pulpit can be the force that leads a preacher from prayerful dependence on the Spirit.” — Bryan Chapell Copy Share Image
“Repentance is not about earning grace but entering it; not about quenching his wrath but quieting the accusations of our hearts; not about unlocking… — Bryan Chapell Copy Share Image
“God does not let our failures to keep his imperatives erase the indicative of his love for us.” — Bryan Chapell Copy Share Image
“When God removes good works as a condition for his acceptance, he does not remove righteousness as a requirement for life.” — Bryan Chapell Copy Share Image
“We also use the name of Jesus in our prayers to acknowledge what he is doing now. Not only does Christ give us his… — Bryan Chapell Copy Share Image
“The challenges of raising a child are as much for the sanctification of the parents as they are for the benefit of the child.” — Bryan Chapell Copy Share Image
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Finally, the Reformers also agreed that worship should be in the vernacular and that the twofold structure of Word and sacrament be maintained. Zwingli… — Robert E. Webber Copy Share Image
[John Calvin's] treatment of the person and work of Christ, of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer, of prayer and liturgy,… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
I think everyone who has an interest in Reformed theology, or just in Christian theology more generally, should read John Calvin Institutes. — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“THE LAW “THE THIRD, AND PRINCIPAL USE, WHICH PERTAINS MORE CLOSELY TO THE PROPER USE OF THE LAW, FINDS ITS PLACE AMONG BELIEVERS IN… — Mark Jones Copy Share Image
[John Calvin] writes clearly, directly, without artifice, and gets straight to the practical heart of the matter. — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
No person, no matter how clever and deceitful, can indefinitely hide a character that is rotten and out of tune with God. John Calvin… — John Macarthur Copy Share Image
“No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“How, as John Calvin put it, “without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.” “For” — Ian Morgan Cron Copy Share Image
“The Swiss theologian John Calvin, in his commentaries on the Hebrew prophets, says that God so identifies with the poor that their cries express… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
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