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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
By these words it is plain he does not make love the cause of forgiveness, but the proof of it.
— John Calvin
All those who storm heaven like giants, without Christ's help, are deprived of any right knowledge of God.
— John Calvin
Christ descended to us, to bear us up to the Father, and at the same time to bear us up to himself, inasmuch as he is one with the Father.
— John Calvin
But he immediately adds another clause, to teach us, that if anything in us tends to life, it is what the Spirit produces; for no spark of life proceeds from our flesh.
— 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
We shall never arrive at true meekness by any other way than by humiliating ourselves and by honoring others from the depth of our hearts.
— John Calvin
Thus, to have a proper understanding of the gospel, we must recognise that we need to lean entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ and his mercy alone as our only hope of salvation.
— 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 we are not to forget that the stability of our salvation is not in us but in the secret election 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