John Calvin — "All good things proceed from God, and all evil things from ourselves."

"The elect alone receive through regeneration [grace]. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all."

"The Lord then would have all the godly to burn with so much zeal in the defense of lawful worship and true religion, that no connection, no relationship, nor any other consideration, connected with th…"

"God works in the hearts of men to incline their wills as he pleases."

"The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul."

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