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Word Quotes by John Calvin
- 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.
- Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not…
- The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
- Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
- Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.
- God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.
- There can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word.
- I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.
- 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…
- The very word baptize, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient church.
- A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction
- To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which…
- 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…
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