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
Death
Heretics
Contend
Heretic
Willingly
Unjust
Whoever
Guilt
Incur
Shall
Knowingly

More quotes by John Calvin

Image
We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.
John Calvin
Image
It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.
John Calvin
Image
To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.
John Calvin
Image
I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are not absolutely useless yet I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast.
John Calvin
Image
If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.
John Calvin
Image
All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
John Calvin
Image
Things that are seen are temporal things that are unseen are eternal.
John Calvin
Image
Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.
John Calvin
Image
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility faith! (Institutio III.2.3)
John Calvin
Image
It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.
John Calvin
Image
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
Image
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
John Calvin
Image
Faith is the evidence of divine adoption.
John Calvin
Image
Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.
John Calvin
Image
I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.
John Calvin
Image
God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.
John Calvin
Image
No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
John Calvin
Image
Indeed, a Christian ought to be disposed and prepared to keep in mind that he has to reckon with God every moment of his life.
John Calvin
Image
The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.
John Calvin
Image
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