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

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  Faith, Religious, Prayer

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

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  Promise, Rely, Obeying

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• That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being thought superior to them, but reckons it enough that he is one of the members of Christ, and desires nothing more than that the Head alone should be exalted.

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  Humble, Men, Sight

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Matthew”, p.360, Ravenio Books

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• We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.

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  Kingdoms, Invisible, Midst

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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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• Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.

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  Prayer, Exercise, Chiefs

  John Calvin (2015). “Commentary on Daniel”, p.353, Ravenio Books

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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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• No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.

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  Men, Spirit, Revelations

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Isaiah”, p.1139, Ravenio Books

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• It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.

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  Justify, Not Alone

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.198, Oxford University Press

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• God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.

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  Two, Way, Spirit

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.285, Jazzybee Verlag

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  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 punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

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  Race, Punishment, Justice

  "Civility: A Cultural History". Book by Benet Davetian (p. 157), April 18, 2009.

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• When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

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  Action, Leap

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