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
Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.
Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.
The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.
I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.
Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.
Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, these human testimonies which exist to confirm it will not be vain if, as secondary aids to our feebleness, they follow that chief and highest testimony. 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.
All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.
Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God.
Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
Surely in Judas' betrayal it will be no more right, because God both willed that his Son be delivered up, and delivered him up to death, to ascribe the guilt of the crime to God than to transfer the credit for redemption to Judas.