Quotes about 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
John Calvin said, "For errors can never be uprooted from human hearts until a true knowledge of God is planted therein." 5
— Timothy Lane
Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
— John Calvin
Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error.
— Norman Geisler
as John Calvin rightly said, the human heart is an idol factory.
— Mark Driscoll
The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time, the most abundant furnishings. Everything in it tells of God.
— 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 no medium between the two things: the earth must either be worthless in our estimation, or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.
— 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
He regards it as the highest insult for the wicked to boast of His covenant while profaning His sacred Name by their whole lives.
— John Calvin
The frequent mention of the glory of God ought not to be regarded as superfluous, for what is infinite cannot be too strongly expressed.
— John Calvin
The Institutes is not only the classic of Christian theology; it is also a model of Christian devotion.
— John Calvin