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Faith Quotes by John Calvin
- Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
- 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.
- Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
- Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve
- The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
- The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow…
- True faith is ever connected with hope.
- Some make man God's co-worker, to ratify election by His consent. Thus, according to them [Arminians], man's will is superior to God's plan. As if…
- To have a proper understanding of the gospel, we must recognise that we need to lean entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ and his mercy…
- It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
- When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.
- It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.
- There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
- Faith consists not in ignorance, but in knowledge - knowledge not of God merely...but when we recognize God as a propitious Father through the reconciliation…
- Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
- Faith alone saves, but the faith that saves is not alone.
- Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.
- Faith is not a distant view, but a warm embrace of Christ.
- But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be…
- Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace.
- ...a man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed…
- It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)
- A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
- The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered…
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