Quotes about Divine
The glory of God is the highest end, to which our sanctification is subordinate.
— John Calvin
If only we were convinced deep in our hearts that persecutions are among God's blessings, what progress we should make in the knowledge of divine truth!
— John Calvin
It is absurd to boast of zeal for the law, when one neglects the divine interpretation of it.
— John Calvin
Whence follows the plain conclusion, that if all men were elected, no man would perish.
— John Calvin
the elegant structure of the world serving us as a kind of mirror, in which we may behold God, though otherwise invisible.
— John Calvin
he refers rather to their adoption because God's grace is the more striking when he out of all mankind chooses some few to be his own people.
— John Calvin
You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.
— John Calvin
And, as Augustine expresses it (in Psalm cxliv.), since we are unable to comprehend Him, and are, as it were, overpowered by his greatness, our proper course is to contemplate his works, and
— John Calvin
For, quite clearly, the mighty gifts with which we are endowed are hardly from ourselves; indeed, our very being is nothing but subsistence in the one God.
— John Calvin
Shall we, indeed, distinguish between right and wrong by that judgment which has been imparted to us, yet will there be no judge in heaven?
— John Calvin
God does not defer his help any longer than fits his purpose. Unlike
— 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