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But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.
— John Calvin
God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church ...
— John Calvin
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
— John Calvin
we shall find that the reason why we doubt of God's promises is, because we sinfully detract from his power.
— John Calvin
The law, in so far as it leads men to put their confidence in it, consigns them necessarily to death. The
— John Calvin
To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.1 - JOHN CALVIN
— Mike Bickle
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine!
— Robert Green Ingersoll
The Human heart is an idol factory.
— John Calvin
I expect that Calvin would evaluate our worship today not as too emotional, but as too narrow in its emotional repertoire.
— Michael S. Horton
The whole gospel is contained in Christ.
— John Calvin
It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.
— John Calvin
Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
— John Calvin
The salvation of all the elect is not less certain than the power of God is invincible.
— John Calvin
Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.
— John Calvin
Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.
— John Calvin
The worship of God is ... the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.
— John Calvin
Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.
— John Calvin
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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.
— John Calvin
It is not after we were reconciled by the blood of his Son that God began to love us, but before the foundation of the world.
— John Calvin
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
— John Calvin
Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.
— John Calvin
we cannot have a clear and complete knowledge of God unless it is accompanied by a corresponding knowledge of ourselves. This
— John Calvin
Faith not only should be fixed upon the essence of Christ (as they say), but should also attend to his mission and power. It
— John Calvin
We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
— John Calvin
The whole Epistle is so methodical, that even its very beginning is framed according to the rules of art.
— John Calvin
The true structure of the church is the Kingdom of God, and this is neither frail nor like a tent in any way. But
— John Calvin
I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.
— John Calvin
The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.
— John Calvin
This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.'
— John Calvin
Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.
— John Calvin
By piety I mean that union of reverence and love to God which the knowledge of his benefits inspires.
— John Calvin
Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.
— John Calvin
Before the rise of Deism, Calvin condemned the pragmatic deism which relegated God to heaven and left the government of the world to men.
— Rousas John Rushdoony
Distinction between virtuous and vicious actions has been engraven by the Lord in the heart of every man.
— John Calvin
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God ... without knowledge of God there is no knowledge of self.
— John Calvin
because life is not stable except by faith. Let
— John Calvin
Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve
— John Calvin
There are babies a span long in hell.
— John Calvin
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Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people.
— John Calvin
Since he has so chosen us, we belong to him, more especially because he has bought us by the blood of his Son.
— John Calvin
A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction
— John Calvin
The Word of God we read is written not so much with ink as with the blood of the Son of God; or
— John Calvin
Christ is known rightly nowhere but in Scripture. If
— John Calvin
I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.
— John Calvin
It is also to be noticed, that the old man is distinguished by his works, as a tree is by its fruits.
— John Calvin
The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.
— John Calvin
when God opens his mouth to us, he should not find our hearts closed and shut firmly against him. _
— John Calvin
In our good works nothing is our own.
— John Calvin
Concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, we must also be aware that he is our Advocate, and that without him we cannot approach God.
— John Calvin
We both felt that the chief virtue of an interpreter consists in clarity combined with brevity. And
— John Calvin
Since the life of the soul is bound to God, those who are by sin alienated from him are to be regarded as dead.
— John Calvin
Did not God assist us, we should not only not be able to conquer, but not able even to fight.
— John Calvin
The proper use, then, of all the good gifts we have received is the free and generous sharing of those gifts with others. No
— John Calvin
for when any one understands this Epistle, he has a passage opened to him to the understanding of the whole Scripture.
— John Calvin
Christ is indeed presented to all, but God opens the eyes of the elect alone, and enables them by faith to seek after him. The
— John Calvin
Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.
— John Calvin
No one truly belongs to the church and is counted among God's children, unless he first becomes a new man. This
— John Calvin
In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
— John Calvin
