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John Calvin Quotes - Page 6

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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

Order, Joy, Suffering

Let us be peaceable as near as we can: let us relent of our own right: let us not strive for these worldly goods, honour and reputation: let us bear all wrongs and outrages, rather than be moved to any debate through our own fault. But in the meanwhile, let us fight for God's truth with tooth and nail.

Fighting, Teeth, Nails

The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.

Practice, Church, Ancient

"Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 2: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French".

We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.

Meditation, Joy, Suffering

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

Science, Religion, Christ

A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.

Perfect, Found, Unbelievers

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

Evil, Use, Instruments

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

Joy, Affliction, Ought

John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on James”, p.6, Ravenio Books

The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.

Spirit, Christ, Holy Spirit

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.485, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

Suffering, Lord, Inevitable

Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

Perseverance, Prayer, Results

John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.803, Jazzybee Verlag

You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.

Powerful, Blessing, Suggestions

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

There are babies a span long in hell.

Baby, Long, Hell

Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.

Easter, School, Progress

Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.

Feet, Medicine, Departure

If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

Men, Light, House

We say, then, that Scripture clearly proves this much, that God by his eternal and immutable counsel determined once for all those whom it was his pleasure one day to admit to salvation, and those whom, on the other hand, it was his pleasure to doom to destruction. We maintain that this counsel, as regards the elect, is founded on his free mercy, without any respect to human worth, while those whom he dooms to destruction are excluded from access to life by a just and blameless, but at the same time incomprehensible judgment

Hands, One Day, Scripture

John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.814, Jazzybee Verlag

All the more vile is the stupidity of those persons who open heaven to all the impious and unbelieving without the grace of Him whom Scripture commonly teaches to be the only door whereby we enter into salvation.

Doors, Stupidity, Heaven

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

Persuasion, Certain, Benevolence

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.501, Wipf and Stock Publishers

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.

Self, Knowledge Of God, Self Knowledge

"Institutes of the Christian Religion" by John Calvin, translated by Henry Beveridge, Book I, (Ch. 1), 1845.

The whole gospel is contained in Christ.

Christ, Whole

It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect

Boon, Lack Of Trust, Provoking

John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command.

Rain, Fall, Certain

When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

Men, Done, World

All truth is God's truth.

Truth Is

Theodore Beza, John Calvin, John Knox, Hugh Latimer (2007). “The Reformation's Light”, p.9, Puritan Publications

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