John Calvin — Spiritual Quotes

193 quotes · Theologian, Reformer

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John Calvin Quotes

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John Calvin

Theologian, Reformer

Spiritual

“For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous paths which it devises for us.”

Eye Path Guides

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John Calvin

Theologian, Reformer

Spiritual

“The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.”

Prayer Facts Answers

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Spiritual

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

Soul Hell Criminal Mind

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Spiritual

“Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.”

Suffering Chance

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Spiritual

“It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command.”

Fall Rain

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Spiritual

“The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.”

Needs Fool Scripture

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Spiritual

“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.”

Giving Heaven Remembrance

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Spiritual

“The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.”

Eye Devil Life Changing

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Spiritual

“Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.”

Worship Fancy Conceit

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Spiritual

“You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.”

Powerful Blessing Suggestions

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Spiritual

“Concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, we must also be aware that he is our Advocate, and that without him we cannot approach God.”

Jesus Christ Lord

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Spiritual

“After 50 years, is it not clear that God has raised up new illnesses connected with fornication? From where do these things come if not from the hand of God? [In response to these diseases] The world was astounded, and people were terrified for a time, but they have not, to this day, observed the hand of God.”

People Years Hands

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