John Calvin Quotes

The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to their own merits. But scripture here helps us out with an excellent argument when it teaches us that we must not think of man's real value, but only of his creation in the image of God to which we owe all possible honor and love.

John Calvin

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• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Book
  • Silence

• Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Science
  • Idea
  • Speaking

• I got a finger that's literally bone-on-bone. This bad boy, it gets smaller. The more and more I do, it grinds bone-on-bone.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Bad
  • Boy
  • Bad Boy

• I know in my life there's stuff that will come back because I haven't dealt with it, and it's the same with everybody.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Same

• I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • Life
  • Up
  • School

• Poetry emulates the Cosmos perhaps because the Cosmos itself is the grandest conceivable example of rhythm, rhyme, harmony and concinnity.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Poetry

• Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Fall

• All you do is head straight for the grave, a face just covers a skull awhile. Stretch that skull-cover and smile.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Smile

• Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Air

• We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,-scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.

  

  Colley Cibber

• For a long time, I dressed like an idiot. In college, I had a fully shaved head with just two horns. Like, a coxcomb of hair that I would sculpt into two horns. I looked like a crazy person.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Time
  • Long
  • College

• An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Faith
  • Fashion
  • Waves

• Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Life
  • Taken

• I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Soul
  • Benefits
  • Liberates

• What I've learned is the power of a compelling vision.

  

  Alan Mulally
  • Power
  • Vision

• It's okay to talk about birth, okay - then menstruation. I first started my advocacy for women's health in the field of reproductive freedom, and the next stage would be bringing menopause out of the closet.

  

  Cybill Shepherd
  • Women
  • Freedom
  • Health

• The earliest paintings I loved were always the most non-referential paintings you can imagine, by painters such as Mondrian. I was thrilled by them because they didn't refer to anything else. They stood alone, and they were just charged magic objects that did not get their strength from being connected to anything else.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Alone
  • Magic

• I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • Up

• For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.

  

  William of Occam
  • Reason
  • Authority
  • Scripture

• It's not the nineteenth century; I'm not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the floor with a lemon and a bucket of vinegar does not make me a better person.

  

  Emily Matchar
  • Down
  • Judged
  • Housekeeper

• Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.

  

  Yann Martel
  • God
  • Hope
  • Rest

• Bittersweet is kind of my own favourite style because I want to be able to cry to the same song that I also can laugh to.

  

  Aino Jawo Icona Pop
  • Song
  • Style
  • Laugh

• I want you to see me naked and performing one or two dozen mad acts, which will take me less than half an hour, because if you have seen them with your own eyes, you can safely swear to any others you might wish to add.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Wish
  • Mad
  • Performing

• The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to their own merits. But scripture here helps us out with an excellent argument when it teaches us that we must not think of man's real value, but only of his creation in the image of God to which we owe all possible honor and love.

  

  John Calvin
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  • Teaches