Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.
John CalvinHowever many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
John CalvinBut as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.
John CalvinThere is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
John CalvinIt is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.
John CalvinFor Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.
John Calvin