John Calvin Quotes

• Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.

  John Calvin

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• True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

  John Calvin

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• However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

  John Calvin

  Topics in God

  Tags in Wishes, Will, Blessing

• All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

  John Calvin

  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Divine, Neighbors, Blessing

• God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

  John Calvin

  Topics in God, Justice

  Tags in Salvation, Glory, Mercy, Attribute

• 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.

  John Calvin

  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Superstition, Idolatry, Mankind, Mind, Men

• No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

  John Calvin

  Topics in God

  Tags in Unto, Unbelief, Gate, Man, Men

• Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

  John Calvin

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  Tags in Women, Rule, Reason, Men

• God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us – as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

  John Calvin

  Topics in God

  Tags in Us, Escapes, Forgiveness, Ignorance, Mercy

• A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

  John Calvin

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Attacked, Action, Coward

• We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

  John Calvin

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  Tags in Satan, Miracles

• The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

  John Calvin

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  Tags in Hell, Conscience

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

  John Calvin

  Topics in Joy, Suffering

  Tags in Completion, Order

• There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

  John Calvin

  Topics in Confidence, Intelligence

  Tags in Spirit

• Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

  John Calvin

  Topics in Fear

  Tags in Us, Sail, Will

• Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

  John Calvin

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  Tags in Faculty, Disagree, Absent, Reason, Will

• Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

  John Calvin

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  Tags in Christianity, Understanding

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

  John Calvin

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in School

• There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

  John Calvin

  Topics in Joy

  Tags in World, Grass

• There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

  John Calvin

  Topics in God, Work

  Tags in However, Vile

John Calvin (23)

Birth:	10th July, 1509
Death:	27th May, 1564
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Theologian

About

John Calvin was born in Noyon, Picardy, France. He was a French theologian, lawyer and author. He was the leading French Protestant Reformer and the most important figure in the second generation of the Protestant Reformation. His interpretation of Christianity, advanced above all in his Institutio Christianae religionis, and the institutional and social patterns he worked out for Geneva deeply influenced Protestantism elsewhere in Europe and in North America. He studied at the University of Paris in 1523 to be educated for the priesthood but later decided that he should be a lawyer; from 1528 to 1531, therefore, he studied in the law schools of Orléans and Bourges. He wrote several books include: Institutes of the Christian Religion, A Guide to Christian Living, and Sermons on Election & Reprobation.

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