Reformed Quotes

"Hence that dread and amazement with which, as Scripture uniformly relates, holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God . . . Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God" ~John Calvin

"If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and that it is impossible for any man to obtain even the minutest portion of right and sound doctrine without being a disciple of Scripture. Hence, the first step in true knowledge is taken, when we reverently embrace the testimony which God has been pleased therein to give of himself." ~John Calvin

"This is a principle which distinguishes our religion from all others, that we know that God hath spoken to us, and are fully convinced that the prophets did not speak at their own suggestion, but that, being organs of the Holy Spirit, they only uttered what they had been commissioned from heaven to declare." ~John Calvin

"This is the first clause, that we owe to the Scripture the same reverence which we owe to God; because it has proceeded from him alone, and has nothing belonging to man mixed with it" ~John Calvin

"Hence that dread and amazement with which, as Scripture uniformly relates, holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God . . . Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God." ~John Calvin

"Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws: as though God had not been wise enough" -John Calvin

"For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God." - John Calvin

The Pastor ought to have two voices: one, for the gathering of the sheep; and other, for the warding off and driving away of the wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both." John Calvin

"Wherever the knowledge of it [the doctrine of justification by faith] is taken away, the glory of Christ is extinguished, religion abolished, the Church destroyed, and the hope of salvation utterly overthrown."
~John Calvin

"I call it not humility, so long as we think there is any good remaining in us. Those who have joined together the two things, to think humbly of ourselves before God and yet hold our own righteousness in the same estimation, have hitherto taught a pernicious hypocrisy" - John Calvin

" We ought to believe that Christ cannot be properly known in any other way than from the Scriptures; and if be so, it follows that we ought to read the Scriptures with the express design of finding Christ in them" -John Calvin

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. ~John Calvin

For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by His fatherly care, that He is the Author of their every good, that they should seek nothing beyond Him — they will never yield Him willing service. Nay, unless they establish their complete happiness in Him, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to Him. John Calvin

“God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray”~John Calvin