John Calvin Quotes About Prosperity

Quotes about: Prosperity

• Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

  John Calvin

  Poverty, Prosperity, Dangerous

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Isaiah 33- 48”, p.199, Jazzybee Verlag

• men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success

  John Calvin

  Adversity, Men, Matter

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Isaiah”, p.670, Ravenio Books

• Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

  John Calvin

  Men, Delight, Poverty

• For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Effort, Praying

  "John Calvin's Commentaries On Zechariah And Malachi". Annotated Edition,

• Moreover, a true Christian will not ascribe any prosperity to his own diligence, industry, or good fortune, but he will acknowledge that God is the author of it.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Prosperity, Diligence

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.43, Baker Books

• 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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