Quotes about God
Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.
— John Calvin
But be it so that public error must have a place in human society, still, in the kingdom of God, we must look and listen only to his eternal truth, against which no series of years, no custom, no conspiracy, can plead prescription.
— John Calvin
Therefore, God's foreknowledge cannot be the reason of our election, because when God [looks into the future and] surveys all mankind, he will find them all, from the first to the last, under the same curse.
— John Calvin
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.
— John Calvin
Every instance in which the mercy of God occurs to our remembrance, ought to be embraced by us as an occasion of ascribing glory to God.
— John Calvin
Did not God assist us, we should not only not be able to conquer, but not able even to fight.
— John Calvin
in the freest manner, and on no mercenary grounds, does God bestow upon us his love and favor, just as, when we were not yet born, and when he was prompted by nothing but his own will, he fixed upon us his choice.
— John Calvin
But the secret counsel of God is something else. It is so deep and so high that no exploration can attain to it.
— John Calvin
But we are not to forget that the stability of our salvation is not in us but in the secret election of God.
— John Calvin
Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.
— John Calvin
Unless God himself had by his election redeemed us from ruin, there would have been nothing but ruin to foresee.
— John Calvin
We remain exposed to the judgment of God, we are bound by miserable chains, and therefore our exemption from guilt, becomes an invaluable freedom.
— John Calvin