John Calvin Quotes About Authority

Quotes about: Authority

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

  John Calvin

  Scary, Copernicus, Venture

• Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.

  John Calvin

  Giving, Heaven, Remembrance

  Mortimer J. Adler, John Calvin (1993). “Institutes of the Christian religion”

• Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Dominion, Riches

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.389, Ravenio Books

• The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.

  John Calvin

  Men, Heaven, Scripture

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.354, Oxford University Press

• The effect of our knowledge rather ought to be, first, to teach us reverence and fear; and, secondly, to induce us, under its guidance and teaching, to ask every good thing from [God], and, when it is received, ascribe it to him. For how can the idea of God enter your mind without instantly giving rise to the thought, that since you are his workmanship, you are bound, by the very law of creation, to submit to his authority?-\-\that your life is due to him?-\-\that whatever you do ought to have reference to him.

  John Calvin

  Teaching, Law, Ideas

  John Calvin “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second”, Jazzybee Verlag

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