It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3)
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
We shall never arrive at true meekness by any other way than by humiliating ourselves and by honoring others from the depth of our hearts.
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
[They] pervert the course of nature [by saying] the sun does not move and that it is the earth that revolves and that it turns.[John Calvin illustrating his opposition to heliocentrism in a sermon due...
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.
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 w...
The difference between us and the papists is that they do not think that the church can be 'the pillar of the truth' unless she presides over the word of God. We, on the other hand, assert that it is...
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.
The fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit,...
True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said o...
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.
There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success
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