Quotes from John Calvin
There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
- John Calvin
Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.
- John Calvin
We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.
- John Calvin
All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
- John Calvin
Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.
- John Calvin
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
- John Calvin
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
- John Calvin
Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.
- John Calvin
Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.
- John Calvin
Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
- John Calvin
Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.
- John Calvin
We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.
- John Calvin