Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
John Calvin (French Theologian, 1509 – 1564)
I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
John Calvin (French Theologian, 1509 – 1564)
Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
John Calvin (French Theologian, 1509 – 1564)
Prayer doesn’t change things – God changes things in answer to prayer.
John Calvin (French Theologian, 1509 – 1564)
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
John Calvin (French Theologian, 1509 – 1564)
If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.
John Calvin (French Theologian, 1509 – 1564)
We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
John Calvin (French Theologian, 1509 – 1564)
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
John Calvin (French Theologian, 1509 – 1564)
For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man’s house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.
John Calvin (French Theologian, 1509 – 1564)
Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.
John Calvin (French Theologian, 1509 – 1564)