John Calvin Quotes
John Calvin was a French Protestant theologian, pastor, and the principal architect of the Reformed branch of the Reformation. After legal training at Orleans and a sudden conversion in the early 1530s, he settled in Geneva, where, with one significant interruption, he shaped a distinctive ecclesiastical, civil, and intellectual order from 1541 until his death. The quotes below are attributed to John Calvin, organized by topic.
John Calvin on God
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Attributed to John Calvin:
“True wisdom consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.”
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Attributed to John Calvin:
“The human heart is a perpetual factory of idols.”
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“All the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits committed to our trust.”
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“Wherever we cast our eyes, all things on which they fall are works of God.”
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“There is no part of our life and no action so minute that it ought not to be directed to the glory of God.”