Quotes by John Calvin

“No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited su...”

“There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.”

“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.”

“Indeed, men who have either quaffed or even tasted the liberal arts penetrate with their aid far more deeply into the secrets of the divine wisdom." - John Calvin”

“And indeed we must seek the true rule of prayer in the word of God, that we may not rashly break through to Him, but may approach him in the manner in which he has revealed himself to us. This appe...”

“May we be prepared, whatever happens, rather to undergo a hundred deaths than to turn aside from the profession of true piety, in which we know our safety to be laid up. And may we so glorify thy n...”

“He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.”

“Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.”

“He regards it as the highest insult for the wicked to boast of His covenant while profaning His sacred Name by their whole lives.”

“Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.”

“For if we see that the sun, in sending forth its rays upon the earth, to generate, cherish, and invigorate its offspring, in a manner transfuses its substance into it, why should the radiance of th...”

“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.”

“Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.”

“The fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spir...”

“The difference between us and the papists is that they do not think that the church can be 'the pillar of the truth' unless she presides over the word of God. We, on the other hand, assert that it ...”

“[They] pervert the course of nature [by saying] the sun does not move and that it is the earth that revolves and that it turns.[John Calvin illustrating his opposition to heliocentrism in a sermon ...”

“It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is sai...”

“The worship of God isthe only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.”

“God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just ...”

“For the Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when it takes root in the depth of the heart . . . the heart's distrust is greater than the mind's blindn...”