John Calvin Quotes
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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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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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There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
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The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it. We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.
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I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
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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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All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.
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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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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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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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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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For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
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While sin is overflowing, grace pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it.
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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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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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We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.
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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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The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.
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The more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.
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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.