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Best Us Quotes by John Calvin
- It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.
- We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.
- The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.
- The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to their own merits...…
- Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God does not want…
- Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to…
- When we know God to be our Father, should we not desire that he be known as such by all? And if we do not…
- 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…
- Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair…
- A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
- No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move…
- The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the orchestra, as it…
- For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous…
- We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and…
- Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death…
- If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we…
- The most perfect way of seeking God, and the most suitable order, is not for us to attempt with bold curiosity to penetrate to the…
- Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong