John Calvin Quotes

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels. - John Calvin

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

Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have. - 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. - John Calvin

For though we very truly hear that the kingdom of God will be filled with splendor, joy, happiness and glory, yet when these things are spoken of, they remain utterly remote from our perception, and as it were, wrapped in obscurities, until that day. - John Calvin

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God. - John Calvin

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols. - John Calvin

Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything... our vision, which in itself is divided, joins up and unites in order to give itself as a whole to the object that is put before it. - John Calvin

Dispensers and administrators of the Devine beneficence towards us. - John Calvin

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