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

• The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Relationship
  • Jesus
  • Point

• Well, I'm a bacteriologist, you know. I live in a nine-hundred-diameter microscope. I can hardly claim to take serious notice of anything that I can see with my naked eye.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Eye
  • Notice
  • Microscope

• "OK, well everyone makes a mistake, right?" But then when you think it probably happened again that's when you think: "Shame on you once and shame on me twice, or however that saying goes." But everyone's been down that road. It's not about the little things anymore, but the major things that tell you if you don't move on at that point then I'm a fool.

  

  Michelle Monaghan
  • Thinking
  • Moving
  • Mistake

• I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately as possible, and then, when telling about it, to improve these figures by roughly a fifth, or twenty percent. I do this mainly because most people believe all fishermen exaggerate by at least twenty percent, and so I allow for the discounting my audience is almost certain to apply.

  

  Ed Zern
  • Believe
  • Audience
  • Weight

• Freedom is the silence of the law.

  

  George Will
  • Law
  • Silence

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

  

  John Calvin
  • Gospel
  • Jesus Christ
  • Preached