John Calvin Quotes

If there had been any unbelief in Mary, that could not prevent God from accomplishing his work in any other way which he might choose. But she is called blessed, because she received by faith the blessing offered to her, and opened up the way to God for its accomplishment.

John Calvin

• God
• Faith
• Choose
• Accomplishment
• Unbelief

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• We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.

  

  Olin Miller
  • People
  • Know
  • Worry

• I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Children
  • Change
  • Try

• Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Single

• Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Always
  • Now
  • Been

• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Language
  • Same
  • Task

• The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life
  • Time
  • Purpose

• I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Immortality

• The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Interesting
  • Always
  • London

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Age
  • Education
  • Spiritual

• I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • World
  • Alone
  • Sad

• At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Life
  • Believe
  • School

• I saw men go up and down, In the country and the town, With this tablet on their neck,- 'Judgement and a judge we seek.' Not to monarchs they repair, Nor to learned jurist's chair; But they hurry to their peers, To their kinsfolk and their dears; Louder than with speech they pray,- 'What am I? companion, say.'

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Up
  • Men
  • Country

• Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Done
  • Purpose

• Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a AAA country.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • May
  • America

• But my lord, Yvonne, surely you know by this time I can’t get drunk however much I drink.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Time
  • Drunk

• Poems get to the point where they are stronger than you are. They come up from some other depth and they find a place on the page. You can never find that depth again, that same kind of authority and voice. I might feel I would like to change something about them, but they’re still stronger than I am and I cannot.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Up

• You have the right not to be killed, unless it was done by a policeman or an aristocrat.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Done

• Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright

• Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave.

  

  Elijah Muhammad
  • Support
  • Learning
  • Justice

• Women have in their natures something akin to owls and fireflies. While men grow stupid and sleepy towards evening, they become brighter and more open-eyed, and show a propensity to flit and sparkle under the light of chandeliers.

  

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
  • Women
  • Bright
  • Fireflies

• Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Faith

• If there had been any unbelief in Mary, that could not prevent God from accomplishing his work in any other way which he might choose. But she is called blessed, because she received by faith the blessing offered to her, and opened up the way to God for its accomplishment.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Faith
  • Choose