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John Calvin Quotes - Page 5

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To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

Powerful, Men, Our Love

Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.

Prayer, Godly, Tyrants

For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous paths which it devises for us.

Eye, Path, Guides

John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Genesis 1-23 (Annotated Edition)”, p.301, Jazzybee Verlag

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

Believe, Men, Idols

Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

Men, Delight, Poverty

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

Doe, Looks, Vain

John Calvin (2012). “On the Christian Life (Annotated Edition)”, p.20, Jazzybee Verlag

Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

Doctrine, Tongue, Affair

John Calvin (2012). “On the Christian Life (Annotated Edition)”, p.17, Jazzybee Verlag

Faith alone saves, but the faith that saves is not alone.

Not Alone

The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.

Bible, Christian, Kings

Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.

Christian, Fall, Taste

The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.

Christian, Baby, Children

On the contrary, therefore, Christ declares that the doctrine of the Gospel, though it is preached to all without exception, cannot be embraced by all, but that a new understanding and a new perception are requisite; and, therefore, that faith does not depend on the will of men, but that it is God who gives it.

Men, Giving, Understanding

John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 1 (Annotated Edition)”, p.231, Jazzybee Verlag

It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.

Blessed, Sovereignty, Sovereignty Of God

Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

Hatred, Desire, Common

John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.32, Baker Books

All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

Knowledge Of God, Obedience, Born

God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.

Brightness, Christ, Ifs

Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.

Men, Justice, Charity

John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.336, Jazzybee Verlag

Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

Rotten, Misery, Pity

There can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word.

Men, Support

John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Zechariah And Malachi (Annotated Edition)”, p.183, Jazzybee Verlag

Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.

Christian, Philosophy, Mind

No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; nay, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone.

Moving, Men, Surveys

John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.18, Lulu.com

The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.

Effort, Firsts, Good Work

John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.266, Jazzybee Verlag

The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust.

Christian, Prayer, Keys

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

Mother, Idols, Craftsman

Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven... While joy overcomes sorrow, it does not put an end to it.

Christian, Joy, Heaven

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