John Calvin Quotes

If the gospel be not preached, Jesus Christ is, as it were, buried.

John Calvin

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• I believe in unconditional love and equality. Jesus Christ exemplified these qualities.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Believe
  • Equality
  • Jesus Christ

• As a youngster, my parents made me aware that all that was from the African Diaspora belonged to me. So I came in with Caribbean music, African music, Latin music, gospel music and blues.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Gospel

• The Gospel has to be the norm.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Gospel
  • Norm

• If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Life
  • Men
  • Lord

• The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.

  

  Karl Lehmann
  • Church
  • Mission
  • Gospel

• The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Understand

• When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Gospel
  • Stake

• The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Work
  • Faith
  • Alone

• Great things are wrought through simple and small things. Like the small flecks of gold that accumulate over time into a large treasure, our small and simple acts of kindness and service will accumulate into a life filled with love for Heavenly Father, devotion to the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, and a sense of peace and joy each time we reach out to one another.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• We are not asking everyone to do everything. We are simply asking all members to pray, knowing that if every member, young and old, will reach out to just “one” between now and Christmas, millions will feel the love of the Lord Jesus Christ. And what a wonderful gift to the Savior.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Jesus
  • Christmas
  • Pray

• Focus on fruitful relationships that bring you closer to Jesus Christ.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Focus
  • Jesus
  • Relationships

• Proclaiming the gospel to all mankind is a fundamental part of the mission of the Church.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Church
  • Mission
  • Gospel

• Because the eternal principle of agency gives us the freedom to choose and think for ourselves, we should become increasingly able to solve problems. We may make the occasional mistake, but as long as we are following gospel principles and guidelines, we can learn from those mistakes and become more understanding of others and more effective in serving them.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Long
  • May
  • Freedom

• Trust no one, not even the finest saint who ever walked this earth, ignore him, if he hinders your sight of Jesus Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Earth
  • Trust
  • Jesus

• Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Confused

• The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Passion
  • Jesus
  • Christianity

• Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to look stupid.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Simple
  • Jesus
  • Prayer

• You may often have to watch Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • May
  • Jesus

• Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Life
  • God
  • Death

• Christians came from the ranks of the illiterate. This is certainly true of the very earliest Christians, who would have been the apostles of Jesus. In the Gospel accounts, we find that most of Jesus’s disciples are simple peasants from Galilee—uneducated fishermen, for example. Two of them, Peter and John, are explicitly said to be “illiterate” in the book of Acts (4:13). The apostle Paul indicates to his Corinthian congregation that “not many of you were wise by human standards” (1 Cor. 1:27)—which might mean that some few were well educated, but not most. As we move into the second Christian century, things do not seem to change much. As I have indicated, some intellectuals converted to the faith, but most Christians were from the lower classes and uneducated.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Gospel
  • Christians
  • Disciples

• Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.

  

  Tertullian
  • Blindness
  • Appear
  • Combined

• We're playing like we are capable of playing. If we can continue to play like this we'll be fine.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Play
  • Fine

• Some day, I'm in a horror movie, and some days I'm in, like, a sweet, independent feature about relationship.

  

  Hale Appleman
  • Relationship
  • Horror Movie
  • Independent feature

• If the gospel be not preached, Jesus Christ is, as it were, buried.

  

  John Calvin
  • Gospel
  • Jesus Christ
  • Preached