John Calvin Quotes
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Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.
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No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.
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Faith is not a distant view, but a warm embrace of Christ.
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A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction.
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It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ.
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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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When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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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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We must not think that God takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.
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Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.
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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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To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts.
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Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.
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I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are not absolutely useless; yet I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast.
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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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Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.
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Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.
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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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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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Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.
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We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give and devote ourselves to righteousness, we not only revolt from our Creator with wicked perfidy, but we also abjure our Savior Himself.
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The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory.
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There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
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Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law.