558 Quotes by John Calvin

All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.

There are babies a span long in hell.

Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.

The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.