John Calvin Quotes About Blessings

Quotes about: Blessings

• However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

  John Calvin

  Blessing, Wish, Infinite

• 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

• Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.

  John Calvin

  Love, Hate, Blessing

• All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

  John Calvin

  Trust, Christian, Prayer

  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.623, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• If there had been any unbelief in Mary, that could not prevent God from accomplishing his work in any other way which he might choose. But she is called blessed, because she received by faith the blessing offered to her, and opened up the way to God for its accomplishment.

  John Calvin

  Blessed, Blessing, Accomplishment

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.44, Ravenio Books

• Those little children have not yet any understanding to desire His blessing; but when they are presented to Him, He gently and kindly receives them, and dedicates them to the Father by a solemn act of blessing.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Jesus, Children

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Matthew”, p.388, Ravenio Books

• Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be ungrateful toward God. For this life, though it is full of countless miseries, deserves to be reckoned among the divine blessings which should not be despised. Therefore, if we discover nothing of God's goodness in it, we are already guilty of no small ingratitude toward him.

  John Calvin

  Hate, Blessing, Effort

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.72, Baker Books

• You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.

  John Calvin

  Powerful, Blessing, Suggestions

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.35, Baker Books

• Even if this earth is only a vestibule, we ought undoubtedly to make such a use of its blessing that we are assisted rather than delayed in our journey.

  John Calvin

  Blessing, Journey, Use

  "Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life" by John Calvin, Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michingan, United States, (p. 84), December 1, 2004.

• The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.

  John Calvin

  Spiritual, Blessing, Agency

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