John Calvin Quotes
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Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.
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The highest honor in the church is not government but service.
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There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him.
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To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.
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Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.
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Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people.
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There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.
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In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.
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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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Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant children, except because it so seemed good to God? A decree horrible, I confess, and yet true.
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When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?
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If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
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Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
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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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... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.
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Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
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If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.
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Now the great thing is this: we are consecrated and dedicated to God in order that we may thereafter think, speak, meditate, and do, nothing except to his glory. For a sacred thing may not be applied to profane uses without marked injury to him.
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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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Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit.
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In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.
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This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils.
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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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We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.