558 Quotes by John Calvin

Men are idol factories.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man's house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.

All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

Because I know that I am not my own master, I offer my heart as a true sacrifice to the Lord.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.