Quotes by : John Calvin

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures....

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in....

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there....

For very few persons are concerned about the way that leads to heaven, but all are anxious to know, before....

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior,....

Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.

The knowledge of ourselves, therefore, is not only an incitement to seek after God, but likewise a considerable....

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less....

The fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations....