Quotes about Spirituality
The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.
— John Calvin
Anyone who cannot bear to lay hold of God as he comes down to him will still less soar up to him beyond the clouds.
— John Calvin
All have been blind to the light, deaf to admonitions, and hardened against the commandments.
— John Calvin
Christ is indeed presented to all, but God opens the eyes of the elect alone, and enables them by faith to seek after him.
— John Calvin
When the law is separated from Christ, nothing is left but empty forms.
— John Calvin
For every family of the pious ought to be a church.
— John Calvin
On the other hand, it is well known that a person never comes to the clear knowledge of himself unless he has first contemplated the face of the Lord, and afterward descended to consider himself.
— John Calvin
Accordingly, the knowledge of ourselves not only arouses us to seek God, but also, as it were, leads us by the hand to find him.
— John Calvin
Since men do not create their own life but obtain life precariously from another, it follows that God dwells in them.
— 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
error never can be eradicated from the heart of man until the true knowledge of God has been implanted in it. Section
— John Calvin
For the one who has learned to regard God in everything he does is at the same time being drawn away from every vain thought.
— John Calvin