Quotes from John Calvin
True faith is ever connected with hope.
- John Calvin
Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven... While joy overcomes sorrow, it does not put an end to it.
- John Calvin
We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.
- John Calvin
For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.
- John Calvin
Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.
- John Calvin
We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.
- John Calvin
Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
- John Calvin
Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.
- John Calvin
The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.
- John Calvin
We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.
- John Calvin
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
- John Calvin
Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
- John Calvin