"The difference between us and the papists is that they do not think that the church can be 'the pillar of the truth' unless she presides over the word...












True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
More John Calvin quotes
"How do you know yourself to be a son of God in fact as well as in name?”Answer: “Because I am baptized in the name of God the Father, and of the Son, ...
"There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.
"There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
"Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
"But the Lord often leaves his servants, not only to be annoyed by the violence of the wicked, but to be lacerated and destroyed; allows the good to la...
"Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.
"We should consider that the brightness of the Divine countenance, which even an apostle declares to be inaccessible, (1Ti 6: 16) is a kind of labyrint...
"The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.