John Calvin Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”