John Calvin Quotes

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

  John Calvin

  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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  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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  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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  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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts.

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  Christian, Heart, Mean

  Jean Calvin, John Calvin, Ford Lewis Battles (1995). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.30, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.

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  Prayer, Thinking, Wish

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Gospels Vol. 1 (Annotated Edition)”, p.321, Jazzybee Verlag

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• While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

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  Men, Looks, Hundred

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Psalms”, p.496, Ravenio Books

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

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  Promise, Rely, Obeying

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• The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

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  Excellence, Church, Doe

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Isaiah”, p.102, Ravenio Books

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• Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

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  Christian, Shame, Wells

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• For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?

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  Worship, Giver, Idolatry

  John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.

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  Flesh, Spirit, Repentance

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• Satan is an astute theologian.

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  Satan, Astute, Theologian

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