John Calvin Quotes
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No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; nay, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone.
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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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The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.
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Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
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The highest honor in the church is not government but service.
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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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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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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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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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There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
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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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Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.
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Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.
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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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He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.
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This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils.
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... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.
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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 gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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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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Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.
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Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
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Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
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We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.