John Calvin

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

The human mind is, so to speak, a perpetual forge of idols.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

All events are governed by God's secret plan.

We are not our own: let not our reason nor our will, therefore, sway our plans and deeds. We are not our own: let us therefore not set it as our goal to seek what is expedient for us according to the flesh.

Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.

All events are governed by the secret counsel of God.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

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

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.

For the mind of man, when it has once been infected with this pest, is so utterly perverse that it is with difficulty restrained from framing for itself, after the example of the devil, some new and unheard of worship.

All that a good man does, all that he suffers, all that he thinks, has a reference to God.

God's election is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

The greater part of the world, because it despises the Word of God, despises also the whole of true religion.

It is not enough to believe that God is, unless we also believe that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

We are not our own; we are God's.

The whole sum of Christian philosophy is contained in these two points: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

The wicked are justly condemned, because they are not only alien from God, but are also full of all impurity.