All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.
- John Calvin Quote

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 Quote

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
- John Calvin Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
- John Calvin Quote

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
- John Calvin Quote

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 Quote

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
- John Calvin Quote

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
- John Calvin Quote

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
- John Calvin Quote

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
- John Calvin Quote

We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
- John Calvin Quote

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
- John Calvin Quote