John Calvin Quotes

But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.

John Calvin

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• There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Deep
  • Spirit
  • Resistance

• This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Man
  • Know
  • Spirit

• When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Song
  • Spirit
  • Cooperation

• I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Believe
  • Spirit
  • Eternity

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

  

  Saadi
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Empty

• God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Spirit
  • Matter

• The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Body
  • Spirit
  • Exercise

• The purest joy for the human spirit and the sheerest delight for man's heart are the rapture of the spirit contained within the love of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Joy
  • Spirit

• To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • You
  • Change
  • Spirit

• I am a free spirit. I tell the truth, and I like to mix it up.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Truth
  • Free
  • Spirit

• Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • House
  • Spirit
  • Give

• Even though it's still the United States, I think on many levels they feel separate, especially the true Hawaiians - who are not necessarily thrilled to be a part of the United States. But I just love the whole spirit.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • True
  • Feel
  • Spirit

• Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Person
  • Spirit
  • Attitude

• I'm really struck by the spirit and determination by the volunteers from the state of Alabama, ... astonishing adversity.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Spirit
  • Determination
  • Adversity

• No one in USAID embodied the spirit of compassion and brotherhood that underpins our efforts more than Larry Foley.

  

  Andrew Natsios
  • Effort
  • Spirit
  • Compassion

• I can promise you that the Spirit is a lot more anxious to help you than you are to be helped.

  

  Seymour Dilworth Young
  • Help
  • Spirit
  • Helping

• Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Happy
  • Spirit
  • Dog

• Constitution is not a mere lawyers document, it is a vehicle of Life, and its spirit is always the spirit of Age.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Age
  • Spirit

• Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments. Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know theyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Spirit
  • Mirror
  • Translated

• The muscularity in my paintings is only an expression of the spirit within. When I paint Nephi, I'm painting the interior, the greatness, the largeness of spirit. Who knows what he looked like? I'm painting a man who looks like he could actually do what Nephi did.

  

  Arnold Friberg
  • Spirit
  • Expression
  • Muscularity

• Running is ultimately a personal experience. It is a revival of the spirit, a private oasis for the thirsty mind. Yet, its healing power only increases in the presence of others. Run together and the oasis grows cooler and more satisfying.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Mind
  • Together
  • Running

• The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses . . . Each generation . . . will have its creed.

  

  Alain LeRoy Locke
  • Spirit
  • Generation
  • Creed

• But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.

  

  John Calvin
  • Spirit
  • Flesh
  • Regeneration