Bears Quote by John Calvin

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

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

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

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

The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

— John Calvin

No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.

— John Calvin

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

— John Calvin

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

The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

— John Calvin

The whole gospel is contained in Christ.

— John Calvin

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

“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