There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice. (John Calvin)
There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God. (John Calvin)
Each eye can have its vision separately but when we are looking at anything our vision, which in itself is divided, joins up and unites in order to give itself as a whole to the object that is put before it. (John Calvin)
Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols. (John Calvin)
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts. (John Calvin)
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men. (John Calvin)
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)
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)
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)
God foreordained, 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 . . . (John Calvin)
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. (John Calvin)
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)
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. (John Calvin)
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. (John Calvin)
For though we very truly hear that the kingdom of God will be filled with splendor, joy, happiness and glory, yet when these things are spoken of, they remain utterly remote from our perception, and as it were, wrapped in obscurities, until that day (John Calvin)