John Calvin Quotes About Creation

Quotes about: Creation

• How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.

  John Calvin

  Jesus, Believe, World

• The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to their own merits. But scripture here helps us out with an excellent argument when it teaches us that we must not think of man's real value, but only of his creation in the image of God to which we owe all possible honor and love.

  John Calvin

  Love, Real, Men

  "Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life". Book by John Calvin, 1550.

• The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time, the most abundant furnishings. Everything in it tells of God.

  John Calvin

  House, Creation, Splendid

• 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

• When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

  John Calvin

  Men, Done, World

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