John Calvin
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.Collection: God
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.Collection: God
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.Collection: Trust
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.Collection: Knowledge
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.Collection: Freedom
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.Collection: Fear
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.Collection: God
There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.Collection: God
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.Collection: God
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.Collection: God
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.Collection: Intelligence
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.Collection: God
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?Collection: Faith
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
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.
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.Collection: God
Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieveCollection: Christian
We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.Collection: Firsts
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.Collection: Faith
For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man's house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.Collection: Mother
I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.Collection: Christ
Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.Collection: Faith
Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.Collection: Heart
If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.Collection: Fall
Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.Collection: Sacrifice
We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.Collection: Wavering
Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.Collection: Views
Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.Collection: Godly
Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.Collection: Poverty
Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.Collection: Perfection
Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.Collection: Goal
The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.Collection: Scripture
When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.Collection: Action
Faith is the evidence of divine adoption.Collection: Adoption
We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.Collection: Promise
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Mean
For, since the fall of Adam had brought disgrace upon all his posterity, God restores those, whom He separates as His own, so that their condition may be better than that of all other nations. At the same time it must be remarked, that this grace of renewal is effaced in many who have afterwards profaned itCollection: Fall
Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.Collection: Men
Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her husband, but that was a liberal and gentle subjection; now, however, she is cast into servitude.Collection: Husband
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.Collection: Prayer
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.Collection: Eye
It having been said above that God bends all the reprobate, and even Satan himself, at his will, three objections are started. First, that this happens by the permission, not by the will of God. To this objection there is a twofold reply, the one, that angels and men, good and bad, do nothing but what is appointed by God; the second, that all movements are secretly directed to their end by the hidden inspiration of God.Collection: Inspiration
Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God.Collection: Wings