All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience. John Calvin More Quotes by John Calvin More Quotes From John Calvin Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them. John Calvin powerful prayer men While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God. John Calvin hundred men looks Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity. John Calvin prosperity poverty dangerous 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 sheep two mean It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone. John Calvin justify not-alone Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty. John Calvin liberty grace doe Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all John Calvin grace special men God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word. John Calvin spirit two way But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known. John Calvin scripture acting wish 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 faults church heard 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 infant eternal may The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it.. John Calvin splendor majesty understanding The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble. John Calvin progress spiritual humble Man'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 idols men believe men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success John Calvin adversity matter men To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts. John Calvin christian heart mean No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief. John Calvin entering godly men 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 hatred common desire There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God. John Calvin knowing-god knowing doe Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness. John Calvin hypocrisy heart men
