558 Quotes by John Calvin

We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God’s benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.

The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, – man’s only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.

But Jacob was divinely chosen and his brother, the first-born, was rejected.

Man’s nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

Therefore, as Paul testifies, election, which is the cause of good works, does not depend upon men.

It is at this point that the gospel differs most from philosophy, since it teaches that the salvation of men is through the free remission of sins. It.

Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God’s saving grace in Christ Jesus.

By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man.

We both felt that the chief virtue of an interpreter consists in clarity combined with brevity. And.