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
Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction.
We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that it consists in the remission of sins and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness.
The Human heart is an idol factory.
Faith is not a distant view, but a warm embrace of Christ.
The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.
To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.
At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God? He will not say that chance has made him different from the brutes; . . . but, substituting Nature as the architect of the universe, he suppresses the name of God.
Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.
The whole gospel is contained in Christ.
The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.
I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.
It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.