John Calvin Quotes

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• When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

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  God, Giving, Judging

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• Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

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  Christian, Hands, Empty

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  Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

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  Faith, Humility, Christianity

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Ezekiel 1- 12 (Annotated Edition)”, p.84, Jazzybee Verlag

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  We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

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  Firsts, Christ, Righteousness

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Romans”, p.166, Ravenio Books

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  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.

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  Christian, Dog, Religious

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• 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.

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  Mother, Men, Light

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• I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

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  Christ, Found, Gave Up

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• Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

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  Faith, Religious, Prayer

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• Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.

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  Sacrifice

  John Calvin (2002). “Tracts and Treatises of John Calvin, 3 Volumes”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• 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.

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  Heart, Men, Worship

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• 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.

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  Fall, Firsts, Steps

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• Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.

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  Views, Giving, Darkness

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• We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.

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  Wavering, Weak, Dormant

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Psalms”, p.340, Ravenio Books

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• Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

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  Poverty, Prosperity, Dangerous

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Isaiah 33- 48”, p.199, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

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  Godly, Christian Love, May

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• We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.

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  Promise, Rely, Obeying

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• No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

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  Godly, Men, Entering

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.558, Oxford University Press

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• The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.

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  Doctrine, Tongue

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.20, Baker Books

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• How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Believe, World

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• The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.

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  Scripture, Christ, Should

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• Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.

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  Spiritual, Doe, Fruit

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 1 (Annotated Edition)”, p.39, Jazzybee Verlag

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  Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

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  Perfection, Christ, Strive

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on the Gospel of John”, p.416, Ravenio Books

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• Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

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  Prayer, Powerful, Men

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• Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.

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  Jesus, Heart, Joy

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• Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.

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  Son, Anchors, Heaven

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