Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Calvin

Indeed, a Christian ought to be disposed and prepared to keep in mind that he has to reckon with God every moment of his life.

John Calvin

Unless we ardently and prayerfully devote ourselves to Christ's righteousness we do not only faithlessly revolt from our Creator, but we also abjure him as our Savior.

John Calvin

No one in this earthly prison of the body has sufficient strength of his own to press forward with a due degree of watchfulness, and the great majority [of Christians] are kept down with such great weakness that they stagger and halt and even creep on the ground, and so make very slight advances.

John Calvin

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

John Calvin

There is no wisdom but that which is focused on the fear of God.

John Calvin

The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust.

John Calvin

The whole life of Christians ought to be an exercise of piety, since they are called to sanctification. It is the office of the law to remind them of their duty and thereby to excite them to the pursuit of holiness and integrity. But when their consciences are solicitous how God may be propitiated, what answer they shall make, and on what they shall rest their confidence, if called to his tribunal, there must then be no consideration of the requisitions of the law, but Christ alone must be proposed for righteousness, who exceeds all the perfection of the law.

John Calvin

Moreover, a true Christian will not ascribe any prosperity to his own diligence, industry, or good fortune, but he will acknowledge that God is the author of it.

John Calvin

The highest honor in the church is not government but service.

John Calvin

My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

John Calvin

The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

John Calvin

The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.

John Calvin

The whole gospel is contained in Christ.

John Calvin

We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

John Calvin

Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.

John Calvin

Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven... While joy overcomes sorrow, it does not put an end to it.

John Calvin

Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.

John Calvin

Pagan philosophers set up reason as the sole guide of life, of wisdom and conduct; but Christian philosophy demands of us that we surrender our reason to the Holy Spirit; and this means that we no longer live for ourselves, but that Christ lives and reigns within us (Rom 12:1; Eph 4:23; Gal 2:20).

John Calvin

Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.

John Calvin

To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts.

John Calvin

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.

John Calvin

I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

John Calvin

Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

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 B. S. Haldane

Every Christian church has tried to impose a code of morals of some kind for which it has claimed divine sanction. As these codes have always been opposed to those of the gospels a loophole has been left for moral progress such as hardly exists in other religions.

John B. S. Haldane

Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. That is the reason why I have no philosophy myself, and must be my excuse for dreaming.

Johann Arndt

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.

Johann Arndt

In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.

Joel Hodgson

South Park started as a little video Christmas card.

Joel Madden

My mom is Christian, and she wouldn't let us listen to rock music. So me and my brother, we had this tape player with head phones, and we locked ouselves in the pantry. We were fighting over the headphones, sitting in the dark pantry listening to Metallica.

Joan of Arc

Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God. I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.

Jimmy Swaggart

The Media is ruled by Satan. But yet I wonder if many Christians fully understand that.

Garrison Keillor

Give up your good 'Christian' life and follow Jesus