Quotes from John Calvin
Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
- John Calvin
No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
- John Calvin
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.
- John Calvin
We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.
- John Calvin
The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.
- John Calvin
Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.
- John Calvin
The Gospel acts without threats... it teaches us about the supreme goodwill of God towards us.
- John Calvin
There are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are those who, on account of some arrogated or temporal grace, are called so by us, but are not so to God.
- John Calvin
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
- John Calvin
There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception.
- John Calvin
Nothing good can proceed from our will until it be formed again, and that after it is formed again in so far as it is good, it is of God, and not of us.
- John Calvin
Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?
- John Calvin