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
Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace.
The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
The highest honor in the church is not government but service.
Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.
He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.
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.
Faith is the evidence of divine adoption.
But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.
To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.