Quotes About Calvin

We owe to the Scripture the same reverence which we owe to God because it has proceeded from Him alone, and has nothing of man mixed with it."14 This was the unshakable foundation of Calvin's preaching-the authority of divinely inspired Scripture. He firmly believed that when the Bible speaks, God speaks.

This was the chief underlying principle of Calvin's exposition: He was always seeking to discover the "one definite thought" behind what the biblical author wrote. Calvin believed this was the expositor's first duty:

In his commentary on Titus 1:12, for example, Calvin states: "All truth is from God; and consequently, if wicked men have said anything that is true and just, we ought not to reject it; for it has come from God.

I despair when I look at the stuff that floods out of the printing presses now; Commonwealth men ranting against the rich, Calvin's people's warning of hellfire and the Apocalypse, the mad prophecies and lewd stories, the biting and slandering. I wish the damned press had never been invented.

Interesting … Still, these Huguenot gatherings must be curtailed somehow. Calvin does not rule here." "Then do it gently. Calvin does not rule here, and neither should the cardinal.

We're not doing outrageous fashion I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.

In the rather informal survey I have taken over the years on intensity of interest in food by profession, lawyers rank only a few trades below concert pianists....

It was pretty gross. The Calvin was, like, dripping hot coffee. And we were like, "What are we going to do?" And James was like, "Let's take a picture—maybe it's under warranty." REESE And I was all, "Dude—how is that helpful? We need it fixed, like, NOW." So James goes, "Fine. I'll suck the coffee out.

THE ONLY HAVEN OF SAFETY IS IN THE MERCY OF GOD, AS MANIFESTED IN CHRIST, IN WHOM EVERY PART OF OUR SALVATION IS COMPLETE. John Calvin (1509-1564)       The One Year Bible Readings for today are Ezekiel 3:16-6:14; Hebrews 4:1-16; Psalm 104:24-35; and Proverbs 26:27. 3 Searching for God Give thanks to the Lord and

That knuckle-end of England—that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulphur.

Whatever you want to call it, they have all these names for these coverages, I've seen them. Like those linemen coming out to jam me on the line of scrimmage. A lot of crazy stuff.

Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola.

I had a few comics, but I was by no means a huge aficionado. I was more of a 'Mad Magazine,' 'Calvin & Hobbes' sort of nerd.

I like major theology. I like Karl Barth, and I like John Calvin, and I like Martin Luther. The scale of thinking and the power of integration that they're capable of from thinking in that scale is something that's really unique to theology.

In his commentary on 1 John, however, Calvin saw more clearly than Packer did exactly where the issue must be joined. The issue is not, as Packer caricatured it, whether the proposition God is love expresses the complete truth about God. The issue is whether it expresses a truth about the very nature or essence of God—whether, in other words, it ascribes (what a philosopher would call) an essential property to the very being of God.

John Calvin said, "For errors can never be uprooted from human hearts until a true knowledge of God is planted therein." 5

A perpetual forge of idols.'35 So Calvin had described the human mind.

Unless he actually had a lit gasper going, Calvin Thrust always has this way of being only technically wherever he was. There was always this air of imminent departure about him, like a man whose beeper was about to sound. It's like a lit gasper was psychic ballast for him or something. Everything he said to Gately seemed like it was going to be the last thing he said right before he looked at his watch and slapped his forehead and left.

He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. -- On Calvin Coolidge

When we do not trust him wholeheartedly, we defraud God of his honor.[107] While Luther sees self-righteousness as a cause of doubt, Calvin sees it as a defrauding of God. When men trust their own zeal, wisdom, and toil, they usurp God's exclusive right to glory for the well being of his people.

Calvin has a great aversion to theological speculation because he is convinced that things will go wrong when theology exceeds the limits of our knowledge of God.

In this preface Calvin pens the memorable statement which he will repeat in the preface to his commentary: the Psalms are "an anatomy of all feelings of the soul.

Finally, Calvin's exposition of the Psalter shows that predestination is not so much a distinction between merit and grace as one between man and God, human honor and God's honor.

Ever since Pope John Calvin had moved the seat of the Papacy to Geneva and set up the Consistorial Court of Discipline, the Church's power over every aspect of life had been absolute.