There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
JOHN CALVINSometimes 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.
More John Calvin Quotes
-
-
It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
JOHN CALVIN -
We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
JOHN CALVIN -
We cannot rely on God’s promises without obeying his commandments.
JOHN CALVIN -
Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
JOHN CALVIN -
Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
JOHN 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 CALVIN -
A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
JOHN CALVIN -
The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.
JOHN CALVIN -
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
JOHN CALVIN -
Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.
JOHN CALVIN -
We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.
JOHN CALVIN -
We 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 CALVIN -
Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
JOHN CALVIN -
A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.
JOHN CALVIN -
The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
JOHN CALVIN