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“Many people have accused me of such ferocious cruelty that (they allege) I would like to kill again the man I have destroyed. Not only am I indifferent to their comments, but I rejoice in the fact that they spit in my face.”

Quote by John Calvin

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John Calvin (July 10, 1509 - May 27, 1564) was a significant figure in the 16th-century Protestant Reformation and the founder of the Calvinist branch of Protestantism. He was a theologian, philosopher, and Christian reformer whose theological ideas had a profound impact on subsequent generations. more

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“But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church. As if the eternal and inviolable truth of God depended upon the decision of men!”

Ifs Men Church Decision Eternal Weight Errors Scripture Consent Pernicious Truth Of God Conceded

Book:John Calvin: Selections from His Writings

Source: John Calvin: Selections from His Writings

“Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.”

Men States Awareness Touched Affected Majesty

Book:John Calvin: Selections from His Writings

Source: John Calvin: Selections from His Writings

“Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.”

Guilt Unjust Heretic

Author:John Calvin

“The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.”

Given Lord Sacrifice Victim Tables Sacred Servant Priests Thankfulness Altars

Author:John Calvin

“Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.”

Ifs Giving Has Beens Given Heaven Records Heard Ought Authority Response Scripture Faithful Perpetual Remembrance Utterance

Book:Institutes of the Christian Religion

Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion

“Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.”

Ifs Church Heard Faults Word Of God God Exists Swarms

Author:John Calvin

“Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.”

Wells Christian Shame Dissatisfied Wretchedness

Author:John Calvin

“Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.”

Kind Hard Evil Lord Ought Various Worthy Adopted Fellowship

Book:The Christian Life

Source: The Christian Life

“Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.”

Book:Of Prayer (Annotated Edition)

Source: Of Prayer (Annotated Edition)

“He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.”

Book:On the Christian Life (Annotated Edition)

Source: On the Christian Life (Annotated Edition)