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John Calvin Quotes (35 quotes)

“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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“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

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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.”
―John Calvin

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“All things being at God's disposal, and the decision of salvation or death belonging to him, he orders all things by his counsel and decree in such a manner, that some men are born devoted from the womb to certain death, that his name may be glorified in their destruction.”
―John Calvin

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“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.”
―John Calvin

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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.”
―John Calvin

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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.”
―John Calvin

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“All the sum of our wisdom that deserves to be called true and certain wisdom is comprised of two parts, to know God and to know ourselves.”
―John Calvin

Source/Notes:
Institutes of the Christian Religion pt. 1 (1541)

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

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“There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.”
―John Calvin

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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

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

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John Calvin

Born: July 10, 1509

Died: May 27, 1564 (aged 54)

Nationality: French

Occupation: Theologian, pastor, author

Bio: 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.