John Calvin Quotes
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The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
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For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
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For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous paths which it devises for us.
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There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.
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The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.
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Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
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I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
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We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.
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Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.
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The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.
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A dog barks and stands at bay if he sees any one assault his master. I should be indeed remiss, if, seeing the truth of God thus attacked, I should remain dumb, without giving one note of warning.
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Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.
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All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.
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In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.
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Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings, yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up with wicked and erroneous sentiments.
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For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.
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Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.
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Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.
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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
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When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God's promises have strong confirmation in Christ.
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Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
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By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man.
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Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.
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Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.