Quote

It is a very important consideration that we are consecrated and dedicated to God it means that we may think, speak, meditate, or do anything only with a view to his glory.

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
Anything
Meditate
May
Dedicated
Mean
Consideration
Important
Glory
Think
View
Thinking
Views
Means
Speak
Consecrated

More quotes by John Calvin

Image
Men are idol factories.
John Calvin
Image
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
John Calvin
Image
The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.
John Calvin
Image
The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.
John Calvin
Image
Many people have accused me of such ferocious cruelty that (they allege) I would like to kill again the man I have destroyed. Not only am I indifferent to their comments, but I rejoice in the fact that they spit in my face.
John Calvin
Image
The highest honor in the church is not government but service.
John Calvin
Image
Things that are seen are temporal things that are unseen are eternal.
John Calvin
Image
There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.
John Calvin
Image
If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.
John Calvin
Image
Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.
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
All things being at God's disposal, and the decision of salvation or death belonging to him, he orders all things by his counsel and decree in such a manner, that some men are born devoted from the womb to certain death, that his name may be glorified in their destruction.
John Calvin
Image
The denial of ourselves which Christ has so diligently commanded his disciples from the beginning will at last dominate all the desires of our heart.
John Calvin
Image
Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.
John Calvin
Image
The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.
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
If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
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
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 shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.
John Calvin