Best quotes by John Calvin on God

Checkout quotes by John Calvin on God

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

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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