Quotes from John Calvin

If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.

There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously.

We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

Because the will renewed is the Lord's work, it is wrongly attributed to man that he obeys prevenient grace with his will as attendant.

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

There can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word.

We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.

Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.

Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.

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

When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.

Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

Faith alone saves, but the faith that saves is not alone.

There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.

A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.