There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

— John Calvin

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

— John Calvin

The salvation of all the elect is not less certain than the power of God is invincible.

— John Calvin

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

— John Calvin

The whole world is a theater for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the orchestra, as it were—the most conspicuous part of it; and the nearer the approaches are that God makes to us, the more intimate and condescending the communication of his benefits, the more attentively are we called to consider them.

— John Calvin

The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.

— John Calvin

[They] pervert the course of nature [by saying] the sun does not move and that it is the earth that revolves and that it turns.[John Calvin illustrating his opposition to heliocentrism in a sermon due to the Bible's support of geocentrism]

— John Calvin

Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.

— John Calvin

True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

— John Calvin

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

— John Calvin