39 ordspråk av John Calvin

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John Calvin föddes den July 10th 1509 och dog den 27 May 1564 - French theologian
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 [A]ll men were created to busy themselves with labor for the common good.

 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

 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

 At this day, the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who

 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

 Build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day; set him on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.

 dispensers and administrators of the Devine beneficence towards us.

 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.

 Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols

 For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God

 For though we very truly hear that the kingdom of God will be filled with splendor, joy, happiness and glory, yet when these things are spoken of, they remain utterly remote from our perception, and as it were, wrapped in obscurities, until that day

 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

 God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray

 Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have

 However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts


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