John Calvin Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

  John Calvin

  Grace, Liberty, Doe

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.134, Lulu.com

• Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all

  John Calvin

  Men, Grace, Special

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.235, Jazzybee Verlag

• To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Heart, Mean

  Jean Calvin, John Calvin, Ford Lewis Battles (1995). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.30, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.

  John Calvin

  Son, Anchors, Heaven

• Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.

  John Calvin

  Jesus, Heart, Joy

• Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they take refuge in the grace of God. And when they have done so, they experience the nearness of the divine protection which is to them a strong fortress (Ps 30:6-7).

  John Calvin

  Spiritual, Strong, Grace

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.51, Baker Books

• In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.

  John Calvin

  Wine, Men, Water

• 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

• It is entirely the work of grace and a benefit conferred by it that our heart is changed from a stony one to one of flesh, that our will is made new, and that we, created anew in heart and mind, at length will what we ought to will.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Grace, Mind

  John Calvin (2002). “The Bondage and Liberation of the Will (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought): A Defence of the Orthodox Doctrine of Human Choice against Pighius”, p.287, Baker Books

• Men are indeed to be taught that the favour of God is offered, without exception, to all who ask it; but since those only begin to ask whom heaven by grace inspires, even this minute portion of praise must not be withheld from Him. It is the privilege of the elect to be regenerated by the Spirit of God, and then placed under His guidance and government.

  John Calvin

  Men, Heaven, Grace

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.132, Lulu.com

• If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.

  John Calvin

  Grace, Ifs

  "God the Redeemer: Institutes of The Christian Religion".

• Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

  John Calvin

  Evil, Grace, Doe

• There are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are those who, on account of some arrogated or temporal grace, are called so by us, but are not so to God.

  John Calvin

  Son, Grace, Accounts

  John Calvin (1982). “Concerning the Eternal Predestination of God”, p.66, James Clarke & Co.

• If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.

  John Calvin

  Mean, Men, People

• To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.

  John Calvin

  Grace, Fallen, Humans

• For, since the fall of Adam had brought disgrace upon all his posterity, God restores those, whom He separates as His own, so that their condition may be better than that of all other nations. At the same time it must be remarked, that this grace of renewal is effaced in many who have afterwards profaned it

  John Calvin

  Fall, Grace, May

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Law Vol. 4 (Annotated Edition)”, p.382, Jazzybee Verlag

• All the more vile is the stupidity of those persons who open heaven to all the impious and unbelieving without the grace of Him whom Scripture commonly teaches to be the only door whereby we enter into salvation.

  John Calvin

  Doors, Stupidity, Heaven

• God is undoubtedly ready to pardon whenever the sinner turns. Therefore, he does not will his death, in so far as he wills repentance. But experience shows that this will, for the repentance of those whom he invites to himself, is not such as to make him touch all their hearts. Still, it cannot be said that he acts deceitfully; for though the external word only renders, those who hear it, and do not obey it, inexcusable, it is still truly regarded as an evidence of the grace by which he reconciles men to himself.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Men, Grace

  John Calvin “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books Third and Fourth”, Jazzybee Verlag

• While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it.

  John Calvin

  Grace, Overcoming, Sin

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Romans”, p.125, Ravenio Books

• All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

  John Calvin

  Sweet, Grace, Our Words

• Because the will renewed is the Lord's work, it is wrongly attributed to man that he obeys prevenient grace with his will as attendant.

  John Calvin

  Men, Grace, Lord

• In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners.

  John Calvin

  Law, Perfect, Shining

• As by the revolt of the first man, the image of God could be effaced from his mind and soul, so there is nothing strange in His shedding some rays of grace on the reprobate, and afterwards allowing these to be extinguished.

  John Calvin

  Men, Grace, Soul

  John Calvin (2014). “Obtaining the Grace of Christ: Institutes of The Christian Religion (Book 3)”, p.80, ReadHowYouWant.com

• 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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