Quotes about Sin
error never can be eradicated from the heart of man until the true knowledge of God has been implanted in it. Section
— John Calvin
The greatest victory of God took place when Christ, having overcome sin, conquered death, and put Satan to flight, was lifted up to heaven in majesty, that he might reign gloriously over the church. Therefore
— John Calvin
Therefore, men get nothing from the law but condemnation, for in the law God demands his due, but does not confer the power to pay it properly. The
— John Calvin
I say therefore that he sins against the Holy Spirit who, while so constrained by the power of divine truth that he cannot plead ignorance, yet deliberately resists, and that merely for the sake of resisting.
— John Calvin
Man stands under the devil's power, and indeed willingly
— John Calvin
The fact is that unless we are extricated by the grace of Christ, we remain subject to the violence of a whole mass of innumerable evils.
— 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
Now, if any one should object, that it is unjust for the innocent to bear the punishment of another's sin, I answer, whatever gifts God had conferred upon us in the person of Adams he had the best right to take away, when Adam wickedly fell.
— John Calvin
when we are angered by the sins of others, we should beware lest a temptation of an opposite kind should take possession of our minds.
— John Calvin
The Lord, however, not only forbids any image of himself to be erected by a statuary, but to be formed by any artist whatever, because every such image is sinful and insulting to his majesty.
— John Calvin
Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.
— John Calvin
A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous...
— John Calvin