Quotes About John Calvin

Hence we judge the papal sacraments to be frivolous, since in them the voice of God is not heard for the upbuilding of souls.

Since the life of the soul is bound to God, those who are by sin alienated from him are to be regarded as dead.

The law itself does not produce sin; it finds sin in us. It offers life to us; but we, being evil, derive nothing but death from it. Hence

The whole Epistle is so methodical, that even its very beginning is   framed according to the rules of art.

It is now clear that faith is a singular pledge of paternal love, treasured up for the sons whom he has adopted.

It is absurd to boast of zeal for the law, when one neglects the divine interpretation of it. So

Thus even the most wicked are an example to us that throughout the world the knowledge of God has some power in the hearts of all people.

The language of the Apostle well agrees with this view;   for he says that he was declared by power, because power, peculiar to   God, shone forth in him, and uncontestably proved him to be God; and   this was indeed made evident by his resurrection.

The blasphemy of the papists is damnable, when they pretend that the light of Scripture merely dazzles the eye. This

I leave it to the philosophers to discuss these faculties in their subtle way. For the upbuilding of godliness a simple definition will be enough for us.

eLet this point therefore stand: that those whom the Holy Spirit has inwardly taught truly rest upon Scripture, and that Scripture indeed is self-authenticated;16 hence, it is not right to subject it to proof and reasoning.

If I were inclined to compile a whole volume from Augustine, I could easily show my readers, that I need no words but his.

But he immediately adds another clause, to teach us, that if anything in us tends to life, it is what the Spirit produces; for no spark of life proceeds from our flesh.

To this it must be added that a sincere love of the law of God is a sure sign of our adoption because it is a work of the Spirit. . .

The sum is, that man cannot claim a single particle of righteousness to himself, without at the same time detracting from the glory of the divine righteousness.

those for whom prophetic doctrine is tasteless ought to be thought of as lacking taste buds.

Therefore, we are today far from wrong in applying this prophecy to the papists, who urge celibacy and abstinence from foods more forcefully than any precept of God. They

For the uninitiated, 'Calvin and Hobbes' is a daily comic strip detailing the antics of an unruly six-year-old and his misanthropic stuffed tiger. The boy, whose vocabulary is packed with more 10-dollar words than a GRE flashcard set, is named after John Calvin, the Reformation-era theologian who preached the doctrine of predestination.

as John Calvin rightly said, the human heart is an idol factory.

Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error.

John Calvin called the Book of Psalms 'an anatomy of all parts of the soul.' All the range of emotions are expressed; the Psalms weave an emotional fabric for the human soul. These inspired lyrics take us by the hand and train us in proper emotion. They lead us to emotional maturity.

To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.

Thank you, but the South is a state of mind rather than a place. Much of it is good, but much of it dark, thanks to our replication of original sin in the form of the Middle Passage. John Calvin and Cornelius Jansen spat in the punch bowl as well.