It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
John CalvinIt behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.
John CalvinI have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
John CalvinIt cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.
John CalvinWere the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever the many are seen to do, forthwith obtains the force of custom. But human affairs have scarcely ever been so happily constituted as that the better course pleased the greater number. Hence the private vices of the multitude have generally resulted in public error, or rather that common consent in vice which these worthy men would have to be law.
John Calvin