John Calvin Quotes


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



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



Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have. - John Calvin



God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray. - John Calvin