Author: John Calvin

Quotes

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

- John Calvin

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

- John Calvin

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

- John Calvin

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

- John Calvin

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.

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

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

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

- John Calvin

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

- John Calvin

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

- John Calvin

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

- John Calvin

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