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Knowledge Quotes by John Calvin
- Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
- Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.
- Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
- Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom,…
- Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
- The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer.
- 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…
- 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…
- Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.
- 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…
- It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such…
- Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.
- The effect of our knowledge rather ought to be, first, to teach us reverence and fear; and, secondly, to induce us, under its guidance and…
- True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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