John Calvin Quotes About Humility

Quotes about: Humility

• Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

  John Calvin

  Faith, Humility, Christianity

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Ezekiel 1- 12 (Annotated Edition)”, p.84, 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

• It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

  John Calvin

  Faith, Ignorance, Humility

• Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.

  John Calvin

  Humility, Pride, Men

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai (Annotated Edition)”, p.48, Jazzybee Verlag

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