Quote

A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction

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
Unarmed
Deprived
Destruction
Devil
Therefore
Word
Given
Soul

More quotes by John Calvin

Image
Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve
John Calvin
Image
In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
John Calvin
Image
Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit.
John Calvin
Image
We are surrounded by God’s benefits. The best use of these benefits is an unceasing expression of gratitude.
John Calvin
Image
Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved.
John Calvin
Image
When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?
John Calvin
Image
There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
John Calvin
Image
In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.
John Calvin
Image
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility faith! (Institutio III.2.3)
John Calvin
Image
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
Image
God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.
John Calvin
Image
There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him.
John Calvin
Image
This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils.
John Calvin
Image
True faith is ever connected with hope.
John Calvin
Image
If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.
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
Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
John Calvin
Image
Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.
John Calvin
Image
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.
John Calvin
Image
Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
John Calvin