Quotes from John Calvin

But Christ offered himself as a sacrifice for men's eternal redemption and he alone officiated in that priestly act.

It is now clear that faith is a singular pledge of paternal love, treasured up for the sons whom he has adopted.

But observe, that men then revolted from God, when, having forsaken his word, they lent their ears to the falsehoods of Satan. Hence we infer, that God will be seen and adored in his word; and, therefore, that all reverence for him is shaken off when his word is despised.

Since men do not create their own life but obtain life precariously from another, it follows that God dwells in them.

Faith rests not on ignorance, but on knowledge.

God established the law itself as the perpetual rule of his church, to be always in the hands of men, and to be followed by all posterity.

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?

If only we were convinced deep in our hearts that persecutions are among God's blessings, what progress we should make in the knowledge of divine truth!

So also we, if we are to give ourselves wholly to Christ, must break away from all the entanglements of this world.

All who have not been influenced by the principle of self-denial, have followed virtue merely from the love of praise.

It is absurd to boast of zeal for the law, when one neglects the divine interpretation of it.

Whence follows the plain conclusion, that if all men were elected, no man would perish.