Quote

Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.

John Calvin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Calvin
Age: 54 †
Born: 1509
Born: July 10
Died: 1564
Died: May 27
Lawyer
Minister
Pastor
Protestant Reformer
Theologian
Noviomagus Veromanduorum
Jehan Cauvin
Calvin
Heretic
Willingly
Unjust
Whoever
Guilt
Incur
Shall
Knowingly
Death
Heretics
Contend

More quotes by John Calvin

Image
But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.
John Calvin
Image
No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!
John Calvin
Image
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
John Calvin
Image
The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.
John Calvin
Image
We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.
John Calvin
Image
Men are idol factories.
John Calvin
Image
Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
John Calvin
Image
When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
John Calvin
Image
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
Image
Integrity is the best of all protectors...we cannot be more secure than when fortified by a good conscience.
John Calvin
Image
Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.
John Calvin
Image
My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
John Calvin
Image
Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.
John Calvin
Image
The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.
John Calvin
Image
Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws as though God had not been wise enough.
John Calvin
Image
There can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word.
John Calvin
Image
It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command.
John Calvin
Image
It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ.
John Calvin
Image
Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel assigned him for his defence, I cannot venture certainly to affirm... not one angel only has the care of every one of us, but that they all with one consent watch for our salvation.
John Calvin
Image
It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.
John Calvin