John Calvin Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• Faith consists not in ignorance, but in knowledge - knowledge not of God merely...but when we recognize God as a propitious Father through the reconciliation made by Christ, and Christ as given to us for righteousness, sanctification, and life.

  John Calvin

  Father, Ignorance, Christ

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

• True it is, that he who has taken off his affection from the goods of this world has already sold all, and has made himself poor, so far as depends upon himself; but the fruit and the proof of this spiritual poverty are, patiently to endure the loss of worldly goods, and without any regret, when it pleases our heavenly Father that we should be despoiled of them.

  John Calvin

  Spiritual, Regret, Father

  "Letters of John Calvin".

• 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

• When we know God to be our Father, should we not desire that he be known as such by all? And if we do not have this passion, that all creatures do him homage, is it not a sign that his glory means little to us?

  John Calvin

  Father, Passion, Mean

• When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?

  John Calvin

  Children, Father, Men

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.56, Baker Books

• But prosperity, and the happy issue of events, ought also to be attributed to his grace, in order that he may always receive the praise which he deserves, that of being a merciful Father, and an impartial Judge. About the close of the psalm, he inveighs against those ungodly men who will not acknowledge God's hand, amid such palpable demonstrations of his providence.

  John Calvin

  Father, Men, Hands

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Psalms”, p.1311, Ravenio Books

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