Quotes about Divine
We are taught that the salvation of all the elect is as certain as that God's power is invincible. Besides
— John Calvin
It is the Spirit of God alone who opens the gate of heaven to the elect. Further
— John Calvin
Each year, month, and day is governed by a new, a special, providence of God
— 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
Faith acquires what the Law requires; nay, the Law requires, in order that faith may acquire what is thus required; nay, more, God demands of us faith itself, and finds not what he thus demands, until by giving he makes it possible to find it.
— John Calvin
Unless God feed us daily, the largest accumulation of the necessaries of life will be of no avail.
— John Calvin
As all future events are uncertain to us, so we hold them in suspense, as if they might incline to one side or the other. Yet in our hearts it nonetheless remains fixed that nothing will take place that the Lord has not previously foreseen.
— John Calvin
The reason for God's keeping some for himself and rejecting others is to be sought nowhere but in God himself.
— John Calvin
The anger of God proceeds with a slow step to avenge itself, but that it compensates for its tardiness by the severity of its punishment.
— John Calvin
Those who see the nightly splendor of the moon are possessed by perverse ingratitude if they do not recognize the goodness of God.
— John Calvin
From the power of God we are naturally led to consider his eternity since that from which all other things derive their origin must necessarily be selfexistent and eternal.
— 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