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From Quotes by John Calvin
- However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
- 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…
- Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of 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…
- 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…
- For though we very truly hear that the kingdom of God will be filled with splendor, joy, happiness and glory, yet when these things are…
- The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God…
- Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth…
- He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.
- No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that…
- At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of…
- The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out…
- Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.
- To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him,…
- Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes…
- It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating…
- To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.
- For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that He was…
- Men are indeed to be taught that the favour of God is offered, without exception, to all who ask it; but since those only begin…
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