If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.
John CalvinThe word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
John CalvinThe most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.
John CalvinThat man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being thought superior to them, but reckons it enough that he is one of the members of Christ, and desires nothing more than that the Head alone should be exalted.
John Calvin