Quotes from John Calvin
Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.
- John Calvin
Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.
- John Calvin
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
- John Calvin
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
- John Calvin
The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.
- John Calvin
The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.
- John Calvin
We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.
- John Calvin
On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.
- John Calvin
But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself.
- John Calvin
Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.
- John Calvin
There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
- John Calvin
But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
- John Calvin