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

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  Kingdoms, Invisible, Midst

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• A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot

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  Men, Fool, Idiot

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On St. Paul's First Epistle To The Corinthians Vol.1 (Annotated Edition)”, p.140, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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• There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.

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  Promise, Ifs

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai (Annotated Edition)”, p.60, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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