Quotes about Wisdom
Faith rests not on ignorance, but on knowledge.
— John Calvin
God sometimes bestows his bounty more profusely, and, at other times, more sparingly, upon his children, according as he sees it to be most for their good;
— John Calvin
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