Quotes from John Calvin
In our good works nothing is our own.
- John Calvin
If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.
- John Calvin
There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously.
- John Calvin
We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.
- John Calvin
Because the will renewed is the Lord's work, it is wrongly attributed to man that he obeys prevenient grace with his will as attendant.
- John Calvin
Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
- John Calvin
There can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word.
- John Calvin
We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.
- John Calvin
Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.
- John Calvin
Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.
- John Calvin
Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.
- John Calvin
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
- John Calvin