John Calvin Quotes
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No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.
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The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.
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The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.
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I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
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The highest honor in the church is not government but service.
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All the more vile is the stupidity of those persons who open heaven to all the impious and unbelieving without the grace of Him whom Scripture commonly teaches to be the only door whereby we enter into salvation.
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Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we are.
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We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.
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Faith is not a distant view, but a warm embrace of Christ.
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Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction.
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We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.
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It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.
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It is a very important consideration that we are consecrated and dedicated to God; it means that we may think, speak, meditate, or do anything only with a view to his glory.
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To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.
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Because I know that I am not my own master, I offer my heart as a true sacrifice to the Lord.
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In our good works nothing is our own.
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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils.
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Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed. In fact Angels have no religion as we know it... Their existence precedes every religious system that has ever existed on Earth.
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Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.
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It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.
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If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.
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Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.