Quote

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

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
Bear
Religion
Christ
Honesty
True
Image
Truth
Bears
Renewed
Wisdom
Holiness
Age
Righteousness
Knowledge
Purity
Perfect

More quotes by 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
It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be spectators of this beauteous theatre, but also enjoy the multiplied abundance and variety of good things which are presented to us in it.
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
Image
You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.
John Calvin
Image
Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
John Calvin
Image
To have a proper understanding of the gospel, we must recognise that we need to lean entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ and his mercy alone as our only hope of salvation. ... No one can be justified by the law justification is through faith alone.
John Calvin
Image
It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.
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
The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.
John Calvin
Image
This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.'
John Calvin
Image
It is entirely the work of grace and a benefit conferred by it that our heart is changed from a stony one to one of flesh, that our will is made new, and that we, created anew in heart and mind, at length will what we ought to will.
John Calvin
Image
God is not limited to any person, but calls freely whomsoever He pleases, and bestows on those who are called whatever rewards He thinks fit.
John Calvin
Image
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
John Calvin
Image
All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.
John Calvin
Image
We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.
John Calvin
Image
Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.
John Calvin
Image
The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.
John Calvin
Image
All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
John Calvin
Image
We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.
John Calvin
Image
We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
John Calvin