39 ordspråk av John Calvin
John Calvin
John Calvin föddes den July 10th 1509 och dog den 27 May 1564 - French theologian
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 However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts |
| I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels |
| Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church? |
| It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results |
| Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ |
| Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments |
| Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony |
| Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain |
| Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of |
| Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness |
| The most perfect way of seeking God, and the most suitable order, is not for us to attempt with bold curiosity to penetrate to the investigation of His essence, which we ought more to adore than meticulously to search out, but for us to contemplate H |
| The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul |
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