How can it be said that the weakness of the human will is aided so as to enable it to aspire effectually to the choice of good, when the fact is, that it must be wholly transformed and renewed?
John CalvinLife is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.
John CalvinAll our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.
John CalvinFor the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man's house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.
John Calvin