We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments. John Calvin More Quotes by John Calvin More Quotes From John Calvin But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God. John Calvin heathen conviction race Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. John Calvin genuine knowledge-of-god christianity You 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 Calvin suggestions powerful blessing The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life. John Calvin scripture fool needs All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions John Calvin invention divine art Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they take refuge in the grace of God. And when they have done so, they experience the nearness of the divine protection which is to them a strong fortress (Ps 30:6-7). John Calvin strong grace spiritual The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. John Calvin criminal-mind hell soul Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. John Calvin knowledge-of-god sound two To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground. John Calvin sovereign treasure prayer The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time, the most abundant furnishings. Everything in it tells of God. John Calvin splendid creation house Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him. John Calvin sincerely giving men We are surrounded by God’s benefits. The best use of these benefits is an unceasing expression of gratitude. John Calvin gratitude expression use Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols. John Calvin speak idols men Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness. John Calvin honesty wisdom truth Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction. John Calvin noble differences children There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief part of wisdom. John Calvin focused christian-inspirational christian We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves. John Calvin smallest ought claims We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that it consists in the remission of sins and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness. John Calvin righteous-man acceptance men They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission - as if God sat in a watchtower awaiting chance events , and his judgments thus depended upon human will. John Calvin judgment events chance We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love. John Calvin honor love men
