"It would be the height of absurdity to……" — John Calvin
"It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)"
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237 Quotes by John Calvin
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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is…
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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make…
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However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
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Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own…
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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the…
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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
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No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is…
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Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in…
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Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
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We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out…
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by…
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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and…
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination,…
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