We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
JOHN CALVINWe should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.
More John Calvin Quotes
-
-
Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
JOHN 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 CALVIN -
Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.
JOHN 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 CALVIN -
Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
JOHN 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 CALVIN -
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.
JOHN CALVIN -
The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
JOHN CALVIN -
Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
JOHN 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 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 CALVIN -
We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.
JOHN CALVIN -
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
JOHN CALVIN -
The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.
JOHN CALVIN -
Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take the time to enjoy where we are.
JOHN CALVIN