John Calvin Quotes About Worship

Quotes about: Worship

• 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

• For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?

  John Calvin

  Worship, Giver, Idolatry

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

• Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.

  John Calvin

  Fancy, Worship, Conceit

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.53, Jazzybee Verlag

• Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.

  John Calvin

  Worship, Obedience

• Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Heart, Joy

• Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Fasting, Worship

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.88, Ravenio Books

• Now we must remark, that there are two parts in the Commandment-the first forbids the erection of a graven image, or any likeness; the second prohibits the transferring of the worship which God claims for Himself alone, to any of these phantoms or delusive shows.

  John Calvin

  Two, Phantoms, Firsts

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Law Vol. 2”, p.133, Jazzybee Verlag

• The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.

  John Calvin

  Spiritual, Nature, Men

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Law Vol. 2”, p.132, Jazzybee Verlag

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