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John Calvin Quotes

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“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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