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John Calvin (Religious Figure)

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.

— John Calvin belief

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

— John Calvin world

We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

— John Calvin miracles

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

— John Calvin thoughts

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

— John Calvin joy

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 mind

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.

— John Calvin art

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

— John Calvin man

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

— John Calvin faith

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

— John Calvin words

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.

— John Calvin fear

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

— John Calvin science

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 freedom

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

— John Calvin intelligence

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 joy

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 will

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

— John Calvin women

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

— John Calvin science

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

— John Calvin work

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 evil

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that Gods truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

— John Calvin truth

A Response To Questions and Objections of a Certain Jew Ad quaestiones et objecta Judaei cuiusdam responsio.

— John Calvin questions

But it must be admitted that our heart is never seriously inclined to wish for and to mediate on the future life unless it has first thoroughly learned to forsake the vanities of the present world.Page 69.

— John Calvin life

The voluntary spilling of semen outside of intercourse between man and woman is a monstrous thing. Deliberately to withdraw from coitus in order that semen may fall on the ground is doubly monstrous. For this is to extinguish the hope of the race and to kill before he is born the hoped-for offspring.John Calvin, Commentary on Genesis, Genesis 38:8-10

— John Calvin hope

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