John Calvin Quotes About Holy Spirit

Quotes about: Holy Spirit

• For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.

  John Calvin

  School, Blessing, Way

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

• Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?

  John Calvin

  Scary, Copernicus, Venture

• The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.

  John Calvin

  Spirit, Christ, Holy Spirit

  John Calvin (2009). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.485, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

  John Calvin

  Men, Giving, Grace

  John Calvin (2013). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 2: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.193, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• Pagan philosophers set up reason as the sole guide of life, of wisdom and conduct; but Christian philosophy demands of us that we surrender our reason to the Holy Spirit; and this means that we no longer live for ourselves, but that Christ lives and reigns within us (Rom 12:1; Eph 4:23; Gal 2:20).

  John Calvin

  Christian, Philosophy, Mean

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.27, Baker Books

• Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Promise, Mind

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.380, Oxford University Press

• Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, these human testimonies which exist to confirm it will not be vain if, as secondary aids to our feebleness, they follow that chief and highest testimony. But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

  John Calvin

  Wish, Acting, Inward

• Let this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture itself is self-authenticated. . . . Therefore, illumined by his power, we believe neither by our own nor by any one else's judgment that Scripture is from God; but above human judgment we affirm with utter certainty (just as if we were gazing upon the majesty of God himself) that it has flowed to us from the very mouth of God by the ministry of men.

  John Calvin

  Believe, Men, Self

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