John Calvin — Spiritual Quotes

193 quotes · Theologian, Reformer

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John Calvin Quotes

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John Calvin

Theologian, Reformer

Spiritual

“Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.”

Religious Suffering Faith

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John Calvin

Theologian, Reformer

Spiritual

“If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it's value? If we doubted its genuineness - we would test it by fire...and so God with us.”

Fire Gold God With Us

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Spiritual

“For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.”

Heart Effort

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Spiritual

“Free will is an empty term.”

Term Empty

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Spiritual

“No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight.”

Sight Shining Tasks

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Spiritual

“The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the scholars; but there is nobody who does not imagine that he is really better than others.”

People Yield Ignorant

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Spiritual

“In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners.”

Law Perfect Shining

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Spiritual

“But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.”

Race Conviction Heathen

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“Now the great thing is this: we are consecrated and dedicated to God in order that we may thereafter think, speak, meditate, and do, nothing except to his glory. For a sacred thing may not be applied to profane uses without marked injury to him.”

Thinking May Order

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Spiritual

“it must be plain also that we should not anxiously strive for riches and honors by relying on our own diligence or cleverness or by depending on the favor of men or by trusting in the notion of good luck, but that we should always expect the Lord to direct us to the lot he has provided for us.”

Men Honor Good Luck

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Spiritual

“First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign ourselves and all that we have to the will of God, and at the same time we should surrender our affections to him as our Conqueror and Overlord.”

Want Scripture Ease

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Spiritual

“Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel assigned him for his defence, I cannot venture certainly to affirm... not one angel only has the care of every one of us, but that they all with one consent watch for our salvation.”

Together Angel Faithful

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