John Calvin Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• 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.

• Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of.

  John Calvin

  Wrath, Soul, Scripture

  John Calvin (2009). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.229, Wipf and Stock Publishers

• Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God does not want us to be overwhelmed in everlasting destruction, for He has ordained His Son to be the salvation of the world.

  John Calvin

  Son, Despair, Doe

• He makes this favor common to all, because it is propounded to all, and not because it is in reality extended to all; for though Christ suffered for the sins of the whole world, and is offered through God’s benignity indiscriminately to all, yet all do not receive him.

  John Calvin

  Reality, World, Favors

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On St. Paul's Epistle To The Romans (Annotated Edition)”, p.166, Jazzybee Verlag

• Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.

  John Calvin

  Sin, Free Will

• The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory

  John Calvin

  Mean, Suffering, Sin

• Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Men, Hypocrisy

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.299, Jazzybee Verlag

• The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.

  John Calvin

  Life Changing, Eye, Devil

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.628, Jazzybee Verlag

• In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

  John Calvin

  Sin, Institutes, Institute

  John Calvin (2013). “God the Redeemer: Institutes of The Christian Religion (Book 2)”, p.219, ReadHowYouWant.com

• In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners.

  John Calvin

  Law, Perfect, Shining

• Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.

  John Calvin

  Yield, Flames, Desire

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Genesis 1-23 (Annotated Edition)”, p.523, Jazzybee Verlag

• While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it.

  John Calvin

  Grace, Overcoming, Sin

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Romans”, p.125, Ravenio Books

• For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?

  John Calvin

  Giving, Shining, Lame

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.20, Jazzybee Verlag

• But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself.

  John Calvin

  Hatred, Sin, Should

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.75, Baker Books

• We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that it consists in the remission of sins and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness.

  John Calvin

  Acceptance, Men, Righteous Man

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.425, Oxford University Press

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