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John Calvin Quotes - Page 11

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I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

Common Sense, Found, Grain

John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Daniel 1- 6 (Annotated Edition)”, p.175, Jazzybee Verlag

For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by His fatherly care, that He is the Author of their every good, that they should seek nothing beyond Him - they will never yield Him willing service. Nay, unless they establish their complete happiness in Him, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to Him.

Men, Yield, Giving

John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.324, Oxford University Press

Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.

Men, Thinking, Giving

"Geneva Psalter". Book by John Calvin, 1539.

We are promised abundance of all good things--yet we are rich only in hunger and thirst. What would become of us if we did not take our stand on hope, and if our heart did not hasten beyond this world!

Hope, Heart, World

Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.

Christ, Salvation, Application

All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

Sweet, Grace, Our Words

But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church. As if the eternal and inviolable truth of God depended upon the decision of men!

Men, Errors, Decision

John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.354, Oxford University Press

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

Love, Men, Honor

John Calvin (2016). “On the Christian Life”, p.20, Whitaker House

But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.

Flesh, Spirit, Regeneration

John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.256, Jazzybee Verlag

The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to their own merits. But scripture here helps us out with an excellent argument when it teaches us that we must not think of man's real value, but only of his creation in the image of God to which we owe all possible honor and love.

Love, Real, Men

"Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life". Book by John Calvin, 1550.

Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.

Mean, Repentance, Distinguished

John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.527, Jazzybee Verlag

Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.

Prayer, Heart, Joy

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

Fleeting Life, Looks, Fit

John Calvin (2007). “Letters of John Calvin”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever the many are seen to do, forthwith obtains the force of custom. But human affairs have scarcely ever been so happily constituted as that the better course pleased the greater number. Hence the private vices of the multitude have generally resulted in public error, or rather that common consent in vice which these worthy men would have to be law.

Men, Law, Numbers

John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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.

Men, Order, Names

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.169, Wipf and Stock Publishers

To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.

Mean, Humility, Passion

John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.41, Baker Books

Men are indeed to be taught that the favour of God is offered, without exception, to all who ask it; but since those only begin to ask whom heaven by grace inspires, even this minute portion of praise must not be withheld from Him. It is the privilege of the elect to be regenerated by the Spirit of God, and then placed under His guidance and government.

Men, Heaven, Grace

John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.132, Lulu.com

No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!

Perseverance, Giving Up, Moving

Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of.

Wrath, Soul, Scripture

John Calvin (2009). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.229, Wipf and Stock Publishers

They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.

Angel, Godly, Roots

It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.

Justify

The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.

Spiritual, Blessing, Agency

The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

Christian, Christian Inspirational, Constancy

John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On St. Paul's Epistle To The Hebrews (Annotated Edition)”, p.75, Jazzybee Verlag

Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.

Yield, Flames, Desire

John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Genesis 1-23 (Annotated Edition)”, p.523, Jazzybee Verlag

Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.

Prayer, Mercy

John Calvin (2012). “Of Prayer (Annotated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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