John Calvin
John Calvin
John Calvinwas 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, aspects of which include the doctrine of predestination and the absolute sovereignty of God in salvation of the human soul from death and eternal damnation. In these areas Calvin was influenced by the Augustinian tradition. Various Congregational, Reformed and Presbyterian churches, which look to Calvin as the chief expositor of their...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth10 July 1509
CountryFrance
Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.
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.
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.
No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.
I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.
How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.
The whole gospel is contained in Christ.
The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.
The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.
There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.
He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.