Quotes from John Calvin

Christ cannot be seen except in the spiritual life which the world does not possess. No

Since Christ, our Head, has ascended to heaven, we should leave our carnal desires behind and lift our hearts upward to him.

because he also is flesh.' In which language God complains, that the   order appointed by him has been so greatly disturbed, that his own   image has been transformed into flesh.   

The essence of God is rather to be adored than inquired into.

natural reason can never guide men to Christ. Even

When Paul reminds the Galatians of what they were before they came to the knowledge of Gods he says that they "did service unto them which by nature are no gods," (Gal. 4:8). Because he does not say ??????, was their superstition excusable? This superstition, to which he gives the name of ?????, he condemns as much as if he had given it the name of ??????.

it would have been absurd in the Evangelist to say that the   Speech was always with God, if he had not some kind of subsistence   peculiar to himself in God. This passage serves, therefore, to refute   the error of Sabellius; for it shows that the Son is distinct from the   Father.

The fact that the outer man decays from day to day does not hurt the believers' true Life. It even helps its growth, because the inner

Man stands under the devil's power, and indeed willingly

We are taught that the salvation of all the elect is as certain as that God's power is invincible. Besides

but will supply our necessities until our warfare is ended, and we are called to triumph: such being the nature of his kingdom, that he communicates to us whatever he received of his Father. Since then he arms and equips us by his power, adorns us with splendour and magnificence

It is the Spirit of God alone who opens the gate of heaven to the elect. Further