Quotes about Wisdom
When that which professes to be the Word of God is acknowledged to be so, no person, unless devoid of common sense and the feelings of a man, will have the desperate hardihood to refuse credit to the speaker.
— John Calvin
that there is nothing put forth in Scripture which it is not profitable to know.
— John Calvin
Without the Word, there is nothing left for us but darkness.
— John Calvin
The ancient proverb says, "Satiety produces disgust
— John Calvin
the Bible was to him the vehicle of God's power first, and secondly of our knowledge of Him.
— John Calvin
Desire is bridled when we acknowledge that all thing given to us are given in order that we might know their author.
— John Calvin
we cannot have a clear and complete knowledge of God unless it is accompanied by a corresponding knowledge of ourselves. This
— John Calvin
Where do all the labyrinths of error in the world come from [the objector will continue], if not from the fact that when men follow their own minds they land in vanity and lies? So
— John Calvin
But it is none the less true that men do not come to God by way of their own reason; neither do they in this way get near to him, because all their intelligence is but vanity. Whence
— John Calvin
True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
— John Calvin
True knowledge of God and of the secret of his wisdom comes from faith, because the obedience of faith opens to us the gate of the Kingdom of Heaven.
— John Calvin
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.
— John Calvin