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John Calvin Quotes - Page 15

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

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

Men, Idols, Speak

The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

Mother, Heart, Idols

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

Knowledge Of God, Christianity, Genuine

Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel assigned him for his defence, I cannot venture certainly to affirm... not one angel only has the care of every one of us, but that they all with one consent watch for our salvation.

Angel, Faithful, Together

"Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French".

It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.

Opportunity, Names, Disposition

John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Psalms 93 - 119 (Annotated Edition)”, p.79, Jazzybee Verlag

Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.

Promise, Life Is, Mercy

The marks of Jesus are imprisonment, chains, scourgings, blows and stoning in bearing testimony to the Gospel. Galatians 6:17 - 17 Finally, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

Jesus, Blow, Suffering

If there had been any unbelief in Mary, that could not prevent God from accomplishing his work in any other way which he might choose. But she is called blessed, because she received by faith the blessing offered to her, and opened up the way to God for its accomplishment.

Blessed, Blessing, Accomplishment

John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.44, Ravenio Books

I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are not absolutely useless; yet I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast.

Struggle, Effort, Vices

Rejoicing refers to moderation of spirit when the mind keeps itself in calmness under adversity and does not give indulgence to grief. Constant praying is the way of 'rejoicing perpetually', for by this means we ask from God alleviation in connection with all our distresses.

Grief, Mean, Adversity

John Calvin “John Calvin's Bible Commentaries On St. Paul's Epistles To The Philippians, Colossians And Thessalonians”, Jazzybee Verlag

We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give and devote ourselves to righteousness, we not only revolt from our Creator with wicked perfidy, but we also abjure our Savior Himself.

Faith, Son, Giving

At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God? He will not say that chance has made him different from the brutes; . . . but, substituting Nature as the architect of the universe, he suppresses the name of God.

Mean, Men, Names

John Calvin “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second”, Jazzybee Verlag

For, since the fall of Adam had brought disgrace upon all his posterity, God restores those, whom He separates as His own, so that their condition may be better than that of all other nations. At the same time it must be remarked, that this grace of renewal is effaced in many who have afterwards profaned it

Fall, Grace, May

John Calvin (2012). “Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Law Vol. 4 (Annotated Edition)”, p.382, Jazzybee Verlag

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.

Husband, Gentle, Casts

John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Genesis 1-23 (Annotated Edition)”, p.135, Jazzybee Verlag

To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.

Prayer, Treasure, Sovereign

John Calvin (2012). “Of Prayer (Annotated Edition)”, p.18, Jazzybee Verlag

Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything our vision, which in itself is divided, joins up and unites in order to give itself as a whole to the object that is put before it.

Eye, Order, Giving

It having been said above that God bends all the reprobate, and even Satan himself, at his will, three objections are started. First, that this happens by the permission, not by the will of God. To this objection there is a twofold reply, the one, that angels and men, good and bad, do nothing but what is appointed by God; the second, that all movements are secretly directed to their end by the hidden inspiration of God.

Inspiration, Angel, Men

John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.102, Lulu.com

Let this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture itself is self-authenticated. . . . Therefore, illumined by his power, we believe neither by our own nor by any one else's judgment that Scripture is from God; but above human judgment we affirm with utter certainty (just as if we were gazing upon the majesty of God himself) that it has flowed to us from the very mouth of God by the ministry of men.

Believe, Men, Self

But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which the Lord has bestowed upon us, for His glory and our good, shall not be preposterously abused, nay, shall not be perverted to our destruction.

Art, Sculpture, Painting

John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.52, Lulu.com

The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.

Real, Skills, Application

For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that He was confined therein. Here is something marvellous: the Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, He willed to be borne in the virgin's womb, to go about the earth, and to hang upon the cross; yet He continuously filled the world even as He had done from the beginning.

Son, Men, Essence

I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.

Principles, Needs, Compromise

This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.'

Divinity, Free Will

Even if this earth is only a vestibule, we ought undoubtedly to make such a use of its blessing that we are assisted rather than delayed in our journey.

Blessing, Journey, Use

"Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life" by John Calvin, Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michingan, United States, (p. 84), December 1, 2004.

The denial of ourselves which Christ has so diligently commanded his disciples from the beginning will at last dominate all the desires of our heart.

Heart, Desire, Lasts

John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.28, Baker Books

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