John Calvin Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

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

  John Calvin

  Excellence, Church, Doe

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

• The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the orchestra, as it were—the most conspicuous part of it; and the nearer the approaches are that God makes to us, the more intimate and condescending the communication of his benefits, the more attentively are we called to consider them.

  John Calvin

  Communication, Justice, Church

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Psalms 119 - 150 (Annotated Edition)”, p.166, Jazzybee Verlag

• But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church. As if the eternal and inviolable truth of God depended upon the decision of men!

  John Calvin

  Men, Errors, Decision

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

• Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.

  John Calvin

  Church, Faults, Heard

• The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Baby, Children

• The highest honor in the church is not government but service.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Government, Honor

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Gospels Vol. 3”, p.78, Jazzybee Verlag

• Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.

  John Calvin

  Church, Christianity, Institutions

• The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.

  John Calvin

  Practice, Church, Ancient

  "Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 2: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French".

• The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.

  John Calvin

  Bible, Christian, Kings

• Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Heart, Joy

• Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

  John Calvin

  Church, Conviction, Submit

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.484, Jazzybee Verlag

• It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ.

  John Calvin

  Acknowledge Him, Promise, Church

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Gospels Vol. 2 (Annotated Edition)”, p.257, Jazzybee Verlag

• This is the highest honour of the Church, that, until He is united to us, the Son of God reckons himself in some measure imperfect. What consolation is it for us to learn, that, not until we are along with him, does he possess all his parts, or wish to be regarded as complete! Hence, in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, when the apostle discusses largely the metaphor of a human body, he includes under the single name of Christ the whole Church.

  John Calvin

  Son, Names, Church

  "Commentaries on the Epistles of Paul to the Galatians and Ephesians" by Jean Calvin, William Pringle, Edinburgh, (p. 218), 1854.

• God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.

  John Calvin

  Mother, Queens, Nursing

  John Calvin (2007). “Letters of John Calvin”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church.

  John Calvin

  Church, May, Scripture

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

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