558 Quotes by John Calvin

Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be ungrateful toward God. For this life, though it is full of countless miseries, deserves to be reckoned among the divine blessings which should not be despised. Therefore, if we discover nothing of God's goodness in it, we are already guilty of no small ingratitude toward him.

It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect

We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.

Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.

First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign ourselves and all that we have to the will of God, and at the same time we should surrender our affections to him as our Conqueror and Overlord.

Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

Free will is an empty term.

True faith is ever connected with hope.

Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they take refuge in the grace of God. And when they have done so, they experience the nearness of the divine protection which is to them a strong fortress (Ps 30:6-7).