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John Calvin Quotes about Giving

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When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

God, Giving, Judging

Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.

Views, Giving, Darkness

My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

Christian, Heart, Giving

The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

Men, Giving, Grace

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.193, Wipf and Stock Publishers

For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill (Deut 32:15).

Medicine, Giving, Physicians

John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.55, Baker Books

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

On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.

Hands, Giving, Satisfaction

Let this be our rule for goodwill and helpfulness, that whenever we are able to assist others we should behave as stewards who must someday give an account of ourselves.

Giving, Able, Someday

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

The principle exercise which the children of god have is to pray. For in this way they give true proof of their faith.

Children, Exercise, Giving

Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.

Giving, Heaven, Remembrance

Mortimer J. Adler, John Calvin (1993). “Institutes of the Christian religion”

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.

For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?

Giving, Shining, Lame

John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.20, Jazzybee Verlag

There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.

Pride, People, Giving

John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.39, Baker Books

Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.

Men, Giving, Sincerely

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

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

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