558 Quotes by John Calvin

We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.

Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

All things being at God's disposal, and the decision of salvation or death belonging to him, he orders all things by his counsel and decree in such a manner, that some men are born devoted from the womb to certain death, that his name may be glorified in their destruction.

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.

We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust.

Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.

Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her husband, but that was a liberal and gentle subjection; now, however, she is cast into servitude.