John Calvin — "The true worship of God consists in obeying him."

"Servetus suffered the penalty due his heresies, but was it by my will. Certainly his arrogance destroyed him not less than his impiety."

"God never abandons his own."

"God's singular decree is the cause of Adam's fall, and through this fall, the damnation of his posterity."

"The elect are called according to God's purpose, not according to their own merits."

"Though the will of God is the highest rule of justice, and all that he wills is to be held for righteous, yet he has not deemed it sufficient for us to acquiesce in his bare will, but has added reason…"