558 Quotes by John Calvin

There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him.

Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel assigned him for his defense, I cannot venture certainly to affirm; not one angel only has the care of every one of us, but that all the angels together with one consent watch over our salvation....

The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.

The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.

They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission - as if God sat in a watchtower awaiting chance events , and his judgments thus depended upon human will.

A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

To 'justify' means nothing else than to acquit of guilt him (her) who was accused as if his own innocence were confirmed.