John Calvin Quotes About Honor

Quotes about: Honor

• 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

• To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.

  John Calvin

  Mean, Humility, Passion

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.41, Baker Books

• 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.

• We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

  John Calvin

  Love, Men, Honor

  John Calvin (2016). “On the Christian Life”, p.20, Whitaker House

• It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.

  John Calvin

  Mother, Son, Honor

  Calvini Opera, Volume 45, 348, 1877-1878.

• it must be plain also that we should not anxiously strive for riches and honors by relying on our own diligence or cleverness or by depending on the favor of men or by trusting in the notion of good luck, but that we should always expect the Lord to direct us to the lot he has provided for us.

  John Calvin

  Good Luck, Men, Honor

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.42, Baker Books

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