The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
John CalvinFor it was not after we were reconciled to him by the blood of his Son that he began to love us, but he loved us before the foundation of the world, that with his only begotten Son we too might be sons of God before we were anything at all.
John CalvinWe shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
John Calvin