Quotes from John Calvin
Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
- John Calvin
The only right stewardship is that which is tested by the rule of love.
- John Calvin
There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love.
- John Calvin
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
- John Calvin
To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.
- John Calvin
For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.
- John Calvin
The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer.
- John Calvin
So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.
- John Calvin
Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.
- John Calvin
Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.
- John Calvin
There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief part of wisdom.
- John Calvin
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
- John Calvin