Quotes about Divine
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
How childish is the attempt to meet this argument by the following sophism! "We were chosen because we were worthy, and because God foresaw that we would be worthy."
— 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
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
God did not look for a cause outside himself, but predestined us because it was his will to do it.
— John Calvin