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John Calvin Quotes

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“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.”
— John Calvin, Through God's Eyes: Finding Peace and Purpose in a Troubled World
Tagged: Torture, Conscience, Bad, Hell, Soul, Sin, wrongdoing
“The most important thing in a blessed life is to be always tranquil and at peace, terrorized by no one.”
— John Calvin, John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait
Tagged: Important, Life, Blessed, tranquil, Peace
“Those who are extremely anxious wear themselves out and become in a sense their own executioners.”
— John Calvin, John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait
Tagged: Anxious, wear, executioner, Anxiety, Mind, Awareness, self
“The old adage that the life of men is like a being at the point where two roads meet refers not only to the general course of life but to individual action. For no sooner do we undertake the least thing than we are pulled hither and yon, and we mix together opposing counsels as though tossed by a storm.”
— John Calvin, John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait
Tagged: Life, Men, Being, road, Living, Individual, Action, opposing, Storm, Counsel, conflicting, difficult, Decisions, Choices
“If anything happens in the daytime, we ask what it is and are not so frightened; but if there is a noise at night, terror seizes on all our senses.”
— John Calvin, John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait
Tagged: Day, Night, happen, Fear, frightened, Terror, senses, Afraid, Scared
“We are always fearful for ourselves in this life.”
— John Calvin, John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait
Tagged: fearful, Fear, Life, Living, human, self, Awareness, Emotion, danger
“Before men decline into old age, even in the very bloom of youth, they are involved in many troubles, and they cannot escape from the cares, weariness, sorrows, fears, griefs, inconveniences, and anxieties to which mortal life is subject.”
— John Calvin, John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait
Tagged: Men, Age, Old, Youth, Bloom, Troubles, Escape, Cares, Sorrow, Fear, Grief, inconvenience, Anxiety, mortal life, Life, Living, human, Aging
“We take nothing from the womb but pure filth [meras sordes]. The seething spring of sin is so deep and abundant that vices are always bubbling up form it to bespatter and stain what is otherwise pure.... We should remember that we are not guilty of one offense only but are buried in innumerable impurities.... all human works, if judged according to their own worth, are nothing but filth and defilement.... they are always spattered and befouled with many stains.... it is certain that there is no one who is not covered with infinite filth.”
— John Calvin, John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait
Tagged: womb, Worth, filth, Pure, Purity, Sin, Soul, Body, human, Vices
“How incredible...the affection of a mother is for the infant whom she warms in her bosom and nurses and watches over with care, so that she passes sleepless nights, worries continually, and forgets herself!”
— John Calvin, John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait
Tagged: affection, mother, infant, Child, aby, Motherhood, parent, nurse, bosom, Care, Sleepless, Night, worry, Love
“There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.”
— John Calvin, John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait
Tagged: Color, rejoice, Joy, Nature, Natural, Creation
“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, Ioannis Calvini Institutio Christianae religionis, Volume 2
Tagged: God, Glorious, decree, Counsel, Destruction, Salvation, Death & Life
“If there had been any unbelief in Mary, that could not prevent God from accomplishing his work in any other way which he might choose. But she is called blessed, because she received by faith the blessing offered to her, and opened up the way to God for its accomplishment.”
— John Calvin, John Calvin's Bible Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Gospels Vol. 1
Tagged: unbelief, disbelief, Mary, Immaculate, Christian, Christian Archetypes, Religion, accomplishment, Blessed, Faith, God's work
“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, John Calvin's Bible Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Gospels Vol. 1
Tagged: Superiority, distinction, Deserve, divine, glory, God, Praise, Acknowledgement
“And at this day, the blessedness brought to us by Christ cannot be the subject of our praise, without reminding us, at the same time, of the distinguished honor which God was pleased to bestow on Mary, in making her the mother of his Only Begotten Son.”
— John Calvin, John Calvin's Bible Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Gospels Vol. 1
Tagged: Blessed, Blessing, Christ, Christianity, Religion, God, Honor, immaculate conception
“But now, although some obscure lineaments of that image are found remaining in us; yet are they so vitiated and maimed, that they may truly be said to be destroyed. For besides the deformity which everywhere appears unsightly, this evil also is added, that no part is free from the infection of sin.”
— John Calvin, John Calvin's Commentaries On Genesis 1-23(Annotated Edition)
Tagged: Opinion, Evil, Sin, Imperfection, deform, Soul, Mind, Body, Image, Religion
“In the mind perfect intelligence flourished and reigned, uprightness attended as its companion, and all the senses were prepared and moulded for due obedience to reason; and in the body there was a suitable correspondence with this internal order.”
— John Calvin, The Identity and the Life of the Church: John Calvin's Ecclesiology in the Perspective of His Anthropology
Tagged: Mind, Intelligence, uprightness, Truth, Right, senses, obedience, Awareness, order, Body, Connection, Reason
“The voluntary spilling of semen outside of intercourse between man and woman is a monstrous thing. Deliberately to withdraw from coitus in order that semen may fall on the ground is doubly monstrous. For this is to extinguish the hope of the race and to kill before he is born the hoped-for offspring.”
— John Calvin, Seeking God in the Works of T. S. Eliot and Michelangelo
Tagged: monstrous, Deliberate, extinguish, Hope, withdraw, coitus, Moral, Religious, offspring, Children, Opinion
“Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed down in any way to our posterity; for it is worse than absurd that parties should be found disagreeing on the very principles, after we have been compelled to make our departure from the world.”
— John Calvin, More Biblical Evidence For Catholicism
Tagged: posterity, Principles, departure, Death, Truth, Importance, Opinion, Thoughts, Mindset
“God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.”
— John Calvin, Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England
Tagged: mothers, infants, Motherhood, Children, caring, Familia, Nurture
“Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal; and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose.”
— John Calvin, Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music
Tagged: Music, Gift, Talent, Pleasure, God given
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