A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. - John Calvin 1 Share Now -
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 2 Share Now -
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. - John Calvin 3 Share Now -
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. - John Calvin 4 Share Now -
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts. - John Calvin 5 Share Now -
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men. - John Calvin 6 Share Now -
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. - John Calvin 7 Share Now -
All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors. - John Calvin 8 Share Now -
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church? - John Calvin 9 Share Now -
No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief. - John Calvin 10 Share Now -
