558 Quotes by John Calvin

For by a kind of mutual bond the Lord has joined together the certainty of his Word and of his Spirit so that the perfect religion of the Word may abide in our minds when the Spirit, who causes us to contemplate God’s face, shines.

Where God’s Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.

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

A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction.

We carefully conceal our abundant vices from others – and we pretend they’re small and insignificant. In fact, we so delude ourselves that we sometimes embrace our vices as virtues. When.

So great and boundless is God’s wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.

Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God’s verdict.

Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God’s grace, not by our worth.

Would the Lord have dressed the flowers with a beauty that runs freely to meet our eyes if it were wrong to be moved by such beauty? Would He have endowed them with so sweet a fragrance that flows freely into our nostrils if it were wrong to be moved by the pleasantness of such fragrance?