I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
JOHN CALVINI gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
JOHN CALVINThe Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.
JOHN CALVINYou 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 CALVINA perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
JOHN CALVINWe should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.
JOHN CALVINGod 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 CALVINIt is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.
JOHN CALVINFaith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
JOHN CALVINThe one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
JOHN CALVINThere is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
JOHN CALVINWe must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.
JOHN CALVINThe surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
JOHN CALVINWe must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
JOHN CALVINThe grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
JOHN CALVINHumility is the beginning of true intelligence.
JOHN CALVINMan’s mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
JOHN CALVIN