Quotes from John Calvin
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
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
- John Calvin
To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.
- John Calvin
Men are idol factories.
- John Calvin
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.
- John Calvin
All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.
- John Calvin
When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?
- John Calvin
Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
- John Calvin
God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.
- John Calvin
The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy.
- John Calvin
Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.
- John Calvin
We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.
- John Calvin