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John Calvin

Born: July 10, 1509

Died: May 27, 1564

Nationality: French

Occupation: Theologian, pastor, author

Biography: John Calvin was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. Originally trained as a humanist lawyer, he broke from the Roman Catholic Church around 1530.

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John Calvin

“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.”

- John Calvin

Source/Notes: To the queen of Navarre, 28 April 1545. In French: "Un chien abaye, s'il voyt qu'on assaille son maistre; je serois bien lasche, si en voyant la verité de Dieu ainsi assallye, je faisois du muet sans sonner mot"

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John Calvin

“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.”

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“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.”

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

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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 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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“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.”

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

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

- John Calvin

Source/Notes: Bondage and Liberation of the Will, The (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought): A Defence of the Orthodox Doctrine of Human Choice against Pighius (2002 edition), Baker Books - ISBN: 9781441207012

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John Calvin

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

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

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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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“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.”

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