Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

— John Calvin

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

— John Calvin

It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ.

— John Calvin

It is not the mere fear of punishment that restrains [man] from sin. Loving and revering God as his father, honoring and obeying Him as his master, although there were no hell, he would revolt at the very idea of offending Him.

— John Calvin

It is now clear that faith is a singular pledge of paternal love, treasured up for the sons whom he has adopted.

— John Calvin

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institution III.2.3)

— John Calvin

I was always exceedingly delighted with that saying of Chrysostom, "The foundation of our philosophy is humility"; and yet more pleased with that of Augustine: "As the orator, when asked, What is the first precept in eloquence? Answered, Delivery: What is the second? Delivery: What is the third? Delivery: so if you ask me concerning the precepts of the Christian religion, I will answer, first, second, and third, Humility.

— John Calvin

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

— John Calvin

Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

— John Calvin

May we be prepared, whatever happens, rather to undergo a hundred deaths than to turn aside from the profession of true piety, in which we know our safety to be laid up. And may we so glorify thy name as to be partakers of that glory which has been acquired for us through the blood of thine only-begotten Son. Amen.

— John Calvin