John Calvin Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.

  John Calvin

  Luxury, Evil, Ease

• We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.

  John Calvin

  Sovereign, Pleasure, Dies

  John Calvin (2007). “Letters of John Calvin”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• 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 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

• It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.

  John Calvin

  Trying, Compromise, Pleasure

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.22, Baker Books

• No one has rightly denied himself unless he has wholly resigned himself to the Lord and is willing to leave every detail to his good pleasure. If we put ourselves in such a frame of mind, then, whatever may happen to us, we shall never feel miserable or accuse God falsely because of our lot.

  John Calvin

  Mind, Details, May

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.44, Baker Books

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