The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.
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 CalvinThere are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are those who, on account of some arrogated or temporal grace, are called so by us, but are not so to God.
John CalvinThe word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
John Calvin