Quotes about Knowledge
that there is nothing put forth in Scripture which it is not profitable to know.
- John Calvin
Without the Word, there is nothing left for us but darkness.
- John Calvin
the Bible was to him the vehicle of God's power first, and secondly of our knowledge of Him.
- John Calvin
we cannot have a clear and complete knowledge of God unless it is accompanied by a corresponding knowledge of ourselves. This
- John Calvin
Where do all the labyrinths of error in the world come from [the objector will continue], if not from the fact that when men follow their own minds they land in vanity and lies? So
- John Calvin
Faith was a gift of God whose main function was to create in man a certain knowledge of God's goodness toward us. The
- John Calvin
When Paul reminds the Galatians of what they were before they came to the knowledge of Gods he says that they "did service unto them which by nature are no gods," (Gal. 4:8). Because he does not say ??????, was their superstition excusable? This superstition, to which he gives the name of ?????, he condemns as much as if he had given it the name of ??????.
- John Calvin
True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
- John Calvin
Wherefore, when we wander and go astray, we are justly shut out from every species of excuse, because all things point to the right path. But while man must bear the guilt of corrupting the seed of divine knowledge so wondrously deposited in his mind, and preventing it from bearing good and genuine fruit, it is still most true that we are not sufficiently instructed by that bare and simple, but magnificent testimony which the creatures bear to the glory of their Creator. For
- John Calvin
Error can never be eradicated from the heart of man until the true knowledge of God has been implanted in it.
- John Calvin
By piety I mean that union of reverence and love to God which the knowledge of his benefits inspires.
- John Calvin
All those who storm heaven like giants, without Christ's help, are deprived of any right knowledge of God.
- John Calvin