Quotes about God
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
we cannot have a clear and complete knowledge of God unless it is accompanied by a corresponding knowledge of ourselves. This
— John Calvin
But, as a heathen tells us,[54] there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish, as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.
— John Calvin
Assuredly, when the word of God is despised, all reverence for Him is gone. His majesty cannot be duly honoured among us, nor his worship maintained in its integrity, unless we hang as it were upon his lips.
— John Calvin
How detestable, I ask you, is this madness: that man, finding God in his body and soul a hundred times, on this very pretense of excellence denies that there is a God?
— John Calvin
the living voice of God does not sound, pomp and ceremony, however elaborately observed, are like empty phantoms. So, we should see that papacy is so much wind.
— John Calvin
If everything went according to their own plans, they would never know what it means to follow God.
— John Calvin
Faith needs to be bound directly to the Word of God; for, according to Paul, faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God (Rom. 10:17). And
— John Calvin
God's purpose remains God's secret, and he alone can justify his deeds among men. So
— John Calvin
But it is none the less true that men do not come to God by way of their own reason; neither do they in this way get near to him, because all their intelligence is but vanity. Whence
— 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
because he also is flesh.' In which language God complains, that the order appointed by him has been so greatly disturbed, that his own image has been transformed into flesh.
— John Calvin