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

• 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

• Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • May
  • War
  • Peace

• We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is at best incomplete and to some extent inaccurate ... we should approach the Scriptures in humility and expect the Spirit to humble us even further as we continue being taught by Him from His Word.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Spirit
  • Bible
  • Humility

• You seize your freedom in a spirit of rebelliousness, exuberance, defiant joy. But to live that choice -- over the weeks and months and years to come -- requires different qualities. It requires that you turn hard, turn rigid. Because it isn't a choice that the world encourages, you have to wear a suit of armor to defend it.

  

  Brian Morton
  • Freedom
  • Spirit
  • Rebelliousness

• Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.

  

  Evan Sayet
  • People
  • Important
  • Done

• Terrorism as a force is gone. As individuals they are all around and we will continue to look for them.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Look
  • Will
  • Terrorism

• The eyes of a young girl can tell everything. And I always look in their eyes. There I can see if I will have a champion.

  

  Neshka Robeva
  • Eyes
  • Champion
  • Young Girl

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

  

  John Calvin
  • Spirit
  • Flesh
  • Regeneration