John Calvin Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

  John Calvin

  Soul, Criminal Mind, Hell

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Gilbert Josiah Hotchkiss, p. 157, 1895.

• 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

• The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.

  John Calvin

  Memories, Heart, Soul

• At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God? He will not say that chance has made him different from the brutes; . . . but, substituting Nature as the architect of the universe, he suppresses the name of God.

  John Calvin

  Mean, Men, Names

  John Calvin “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second”, Jazzybee Verlag

• 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

• Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God.

  John Calvin

  Wings, Soul, Rising

• A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction

  John Calvin

  Soul, Devil, Destruction

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.105, Oxford University Press

• There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

  John Calvin

  Soul, Attention, Body

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.90, Baker Books

• As by the revolt of the first man, the image of God could be effaced from his mind and soul, so there is nothing strange in His shedding some rays of grace on the reprobate, and afterwards allowing these to be extinguished.

  John Calvin

  Men, Grace, Soul

  John Calvin (2014). “Obtaining the Grace of Christ: Institutes of The Christian Religion (Book 3)”, p.80, ReadHowYouWant.com

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