Quotes from John Calvin

Where God thus clearly displays free mercy, have done with that empty imagination of merit.

Now, it is beyond a doubt that the steps by which the Lord in his mercy consummates our salvation are these, "Whom he did predestinate, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified" (Rom. 8:30).

For I fear not to declare, that what I have here given may be regarded as a summary of the very doctrine which, they vociferate, ought to be punished with confiscation, exile, imprisonment, and flames, as well as exterminated by land and sea.

For we never have naked and empty symbols, except when our ingratitude and wickedness hinder the working of divine beneficence.

To hallow the name of God is simply to honor him as is his due, so that men shall not think or speak of him without the highest homage.

See how our works lie under the curse of the law if they are tested by the standard of the law.

Let us know, therefore, that when we have departed from Christ, nothing remains for us but death.

Those who strive to delay or hinder the restoration of the church will accomplish nothing. God is its vindicator, and he will judge all peoples.

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deeds but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

But if God has set his seat in the sanctuary of the heavens in order to rule the universe, it follows that he by no means ignores earthly affairs, but controls them with the highest reason and wisdom.

But it is evident that the servants of Christ are treated with less humanity than adulterers, robbers, and other malefactors of their kind.

Let, therefore, pious readers learn to hate and detest those profane sophists, who thus deliberately corrupt and adulterate the Scriptures, in order that they may give some color to their delusions.