John Calvin Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

  John Calvin

  God, Giving, Judging

• Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.

  John Calvin

  Views, Giving, Darkness

• There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.

  John Calvin

  Pride, People, Giving

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.39, Baker Books

• For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by His fatherly care, that He is the Author of their every good, that they should seek nothing beyond Him - they will never yield Him willing service. Nay, unless they establish their complete happiness in Him, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to Him.

  John Calvin

  Men, Yield, Giving

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.324, Oxford University Press

• Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.

  John Calvin

  Men, Giving, Sincerely

• On the contrary, therefore, Christ declares that the doctrine of the Gospel, though it is preached to all without exception, cannot be embraced by all, but that a new understanding and a new perception are requisite; and, therefore, that faith does not depend on the will of men, but that it is God who gives it.

  John Calvin

  Men, Giving, Understanding

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 1 (Annotated Edition)”, p.231, Jazzybee Verlag

• For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill (Deut 32:15).

  John Calvin

  Medicine, Giving, Physicians

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.55, Baker Books

• The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

  John Calvin

  Men, Giving, Grace

  John Calvin (2013). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 2: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.193, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• 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”

• The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus men practice mutual deception on each other and fall asleep in wicked indifference.

  John Calvin

  Fall, Men, Practice

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.354, Ravenio Books

• No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!

  John Calvin

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Moving

• Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.

  John Calvin

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  "Geneva Psalter". Book by John Calvin, 1539.

• We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give and devote ourselves to righteousness, we not only revolt from our Creator with wicked perfidy, but we also abjure our Savior Himself.

  John Calvin

  Faith, Son, Giving

• Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything our vision, which in itself is divided, joins up and unites in order to give itself as a whole to the object that is put before it.

  John Calvin

  Eye, Order, Giving

• My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Heart, Giving

• Rejoicing refers to moderation of spirit when the mind keeps itself in calmness under adversity and does not give indulgence to grief. Constant praying is the way of 'rejoicing perpetually', for by this means we ask from God alleviation in connection with all our distresses.

  John Calvin

  Grief, Mean, Adversity

  John Calvin “John Calvin's Bible Commentaries On St. Paul's Epistles To The Philippians, Colossians And Thessalonians”, Jazzybee Verlag

• For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?

  John Calvin

  Giving, Shining, Lame

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.20, Jazzybee Verlag

• The principle exercise which the children of god have is to pray. For in this way they give true proof of their faith.

  John Calvin

  Children, Exercise, Giving

• Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.

  John Calvin

  Self, Two, Ties

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.18, Lulu.com

• Let this be our rule for goodwill and helpfulness, that whenever we are able to assist others we should behave as stewards who must someday give an account of ourselves.

  John Calvin

  Giving, Able, Someday

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

• 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

• On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.

  John Calvin

  Hands, Giving, Satisfaction

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