John Calvin Quotes
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We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.
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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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We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.
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Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
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Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
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It is entirely the work of grace and a benefit conferred by it that our heart is changed from a stony one to one of flesh, that our will is made new, and that we, created anew in heart and mind, at length will what we ought to will.
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If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.
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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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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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When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.
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Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.
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Faith is not a distant view, but a warm embrace of Christ.
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... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.
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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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Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.
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The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.
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The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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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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Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
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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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Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
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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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Pagan philosophers set up reason as the sole guide of life, of wisdom and conduct; but Christian philosophy demands of us that we surrender our reason to the Holy Spirit; and this means that we no longer live for ourselves, but that Christ lives and reigns within us (Rom 12:1; Eph 4:23; Gal 2:20).
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Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.