Doe Quote by John Calvin Download Open image “Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.” — John Calvin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doe Freedom Grace Human will Humans Liberty
It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The Grace of God and the human will are co-operant, but not on equal terms. Grace has the pre-eminence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it. — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
It is false that the will, left to itself, can do good as well as evil, for it is not free, but in bondage...On… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid. — John Piper Copy Share Image
Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit. — Sam Storms Copy Share Image
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind.… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
