John Calvin on charity
John Calvin92 quotes“We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.”
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There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
John CalvinJohn Calvin Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
John CalvinJohn Calvin The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it.. We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.
John CalvinJohn Calvin The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
John CalvinJohn Calvin Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
John CalvinJohn Calvin 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 CalvinJohn Calvin Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
John CalvinJohn Calvin Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.
John CalvinJohn Calvin There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception.
John CalvinJohn Calvin You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.
John CalvinJohn Calvin In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
John CalvinJohn Calvin By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man
John CalvinJohn Calvin Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
John CalvinJohn Calvin We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.
John CalvinJohn Calvin Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
John CalvinJohn Calvin The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
John CalvinJohn Calvin
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The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
Cesare PaveseCesare Pavese Save the Children is an awesome charity that has helped more than 125 million children, providing everything from school books to food to blankets and shelter.
PewDiePiePewDiePie I believe in goodness, mercy and charity. I believe in casting bread upon the waters.
Leonard NimoyLeonard Nimoy All the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
Fulton J. SheenFulton J. Sheen For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.
Catherine of SienaCatherine of Siena All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.
Elbert HubbardElbert Hubbard Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding
