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John Calvin Quotes - Page 10

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Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

Men, Majesty, Awareness

John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.322, Oxford University Press

The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.

Shining, Glory, Crosses

The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.

Blood, Faults, Christ

Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.

Secret, Creatures, Happens

John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.183, Jazzybee Verlag

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

Prayer, Hands, Mind

"Institutes of the Christian Religion" by John Calvin, translated by Henry Beveridge, Book III, (Ch. 20), 1845.

To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.

Mean, Insanity, Christ

Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, these human testimonies which exist to confirm it will not be vain if, as secondary aids to our feebleness, they follow that chief and highest testimony. But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

Wish, Acting, Inward

Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.

Faith, Religious, Pain

Because the will renewed is the Lord's work, it is wrongly attributed to man that he obeys prevenient grace with his will as attendant.

Men, Grace, Lord

Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Two, Sound, Knowledge Of God

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.

Heart, Vanity, Hypocrisy

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

Self Esteem, Believe, Dark

Peace and friendship are an amiable thing among men. They be so indeed, and we ought to seek them to the uttermost of our power. But yet for all that, we must set such store by God's truth, that if all the world should be set on fire for the maintenance thereof, we should not stick at it.

Men, Fire, Maintenance

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

Godly, Misery, Strive

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.

Ease, Want, Scripture

John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.40, Baker Books

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

Race, Conviction, Heathen

John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.49, Jazzybee Verlag

For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.

Art, Astronomy, Admirable

John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Genesis 1-23 (Annotated Edition)”, p.60, Jazzybee Verlag

If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal.

Country, Believe, Heaven

John Calvin (2013). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 2: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.57, Wipf and Stock Publishers

It is entirely the work of grace and a benefit conferred by it that our heart is changed from a stony one to one of flesh, that our will is made new, and that we, created anew in heart and mind, at length will what we ought to will.

Heart, Grace, Mind

John Calvin (2002). “The Bondage and Liberation of the Will (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought): A Defence of the Orthodox Doctrine of Human Choice against Pighius”, p.287, Baker Books

it must be plain also that we should not anxiously strive for riches and honors by relying on our own diligence or cleverness or by depending on the favor of men or by trusting in the notion of good luck, but that we should always expect the Lord to direct us to the lot he has provided for us.

Good Luck, Men, Honor

John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.42, Baker Books

The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy.

Mother, Baby, Should

The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.

Life Changing, Eye, Devil

John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.628, Jazzybee Verlag

Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church.

Church, May, Scripture

John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.35, Baker Books

The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.

Lying, Religion, May

If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.

Mean, Men, People

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