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)