John Calvin Quotes

“In many ways the Reformation was born out of the sense of the hopelessness and spiritual powerlessness of sinners.”
― W. Robert Godfrey, John Calvin: Pilgrim and Pastor

“Calvin argues that a sense of the divine is planted by God in human nature and cannot be escaped.”
― W. Robert Godfrey, John Calvin: Pilgrim and Pastor

“. . . we may patiently pass through this life in afflictions, hunger, cold, contempt, reproaches, and other disagreeable circumstances, contented with this single assurance, that our King will never desert us, but will give what we need, until having finished our warfare, we shall be called to the triumph.”
― W. Robert Godfrey, John Calvin: Pilgrim and Pastor

“For the principle which the Stoics assume, that all the passions are perturbations and like diseases, is false, and has its origin in ignorance; for either to grieve, or to fear, or to rejoice, or to hope, is by no means repugnant to reason, nor does it interfere with tranquillity and moderation of mind; it is only excess or intemperance which corrupts what would else be pure. And surely grief, anger, desire, hope, fear, are affections of our unfallen (integrae) nature, implanted in us by God, and such as we may not find fault with, without insulting God himself.”
― W. Robert Godfrey, John Calvin: Pilgrim and Pastor