John Calvin Quotes About Mercy

Quotes about: Mercy

• God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

  John Calvin

  Race, Punishment, Justice

  "Civility: A Cultural History". Book by Benet Davetian (p. 157), April 18, 2009.

• Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.

  John Calvin

  Promise, Life Is, Mercy

• Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Men, Worship

• God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Ignorance, Would Be

  John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

• The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.

  John Calvin

  Faith, Men, Mercy Of God

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Romans”, p.5, Ravenio Books

• But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.

  John Calvin

  Faithful, Mercy, Goodness

  "Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life" by John Calvin, Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michingan, United States, (p. 45), December 1, 2004.

• We say, then, that Scripture clearly proves this much, that God by his eternal and immutable counsel determined once for all those whom it was his pleasure one day to admit to salvation, and those whom, on the other hand, it was his pleasure to doom to destruction. We maintain that this counsel, as regards the elect, is founded on his free mercy, without any respect to human worth, while those whom he dooms to destruction are excluded from access to life by a just and blameless, but at the same time incomprehensible judgment

  John Calvin

  Hands, One Day, Scripture

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.814, Jazzybee Verlag

• Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Mercy

  John Calvin (2012). “Of Prayer (Annotated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

• To have a proper understanding of the gospel, we must recognise that we need to lean entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ and his mercy alone as our only hope of salvation. ... No one can be justified by the law; justification is through faith alone.

  John Calvin

  Jesus, Law, Understanding

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