John Calvin Quotes

Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.

John Calvin

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• Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Art
  • Empty
  • Thou Art

• When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

  

  Saadi
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Empty

• Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Never
  • Promise
  • Promises

• Some people just don't like you; you cannot satisfy everyone. But I've got a lot of supportive fans – people who do like me, do enjoy what I do.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • People
  • Like
  • Enjoy

• When the state machinery defends criminals and the public prosecutors collude with the accused in certain cases and the victims are members of a particular community, then 'Justice to all' is empty rhetoric.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Community
  • Justice
  • Empty

• I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Time
  • Hope

• I'm empty, here at the edge of the sky.

  

  Du Fu
  • Sky
  • Empty
  • Edge

• I come around when you least expect me! I'm sitting at the bar when your glass is empty!

  

  Donald Glover
  • Empty
  • Glasses
  • Sitting

• I come to you with only Karate, Empty Hands. I have no weapons, but should I be forced to defend myself, my principles or my honor, should it be a matter of life or death, of right or wrong, then here are my weapons, Karate, my Empty Hands.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Life
  • Death
  • Honor

• I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Thinking
  • American
  • Space

• It's time to end the hypocrisy of those who accumulate wealth through the global economy, and then siphon funds to those who teach children to tear it down.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Children
  • Tears

• Whenever I travel I like to keep the seat next to me empty. I found a great way to do it. When someone walks down the aisle and says to you, "Is someone sitting there?" just say, "No one except the Lord." Carol Leifer

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Travel

• Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • She
  • Power
  • Scary

• The tomb was empty-the greatest security breach of all time.Yet that event gives lasting security to all God's people.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Stories
  • Made

• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Night
  • Spring

• I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste." Brett's glass was empty.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Wine
  • Emotion
  • Drinking

• Empty, what was to stop vagrants, or even.

  

  Pam Jenoff
  • Stop
  • Empty
  • Vargants

• Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Purpose
  • Finish
  • Empty

• Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Revolution
  • Able
  • Empty

• When we watch stories, we learn empathy, we learn compassion, and hopefully we achieve some sort of understanding.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Understanding
  • Learn
  • Compassion

• We know British Muslims, in general, abhor the actions of the extremists.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Action
  • Extremist

• These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.

  

  Epictetus
  • Praise
  • Wise Man
  • Merits

• Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.

  

  John Calvin
  • Empty
  • Hypocrisy
  • Satisfy