John Calvin Quotes
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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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We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.
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Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
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If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it's value? If we doubted its genuineness - we would test it by fire...and so God with us.
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The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils.
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If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
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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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Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.
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Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.
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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 fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.
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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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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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Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.
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Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel assigned him for his defence, I cannot venture certainly to affirm... not one angel only has the care of every one of us, but that they all with one consent watch for our salvation.
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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 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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Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.
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Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.
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Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.
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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.
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Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
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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.