John Calvin, Institutes Of The Christian Religion, 2 Vols Quotes

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.

Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

It is now clear that faith is a singular pledge of paternal love, treasured up for the sons whom he has adopted.

The salvation of all the elect is not less certain than the power of God is invincible.

When God descends to us he, in a certain sense, abases himself and stammers with us, so He allows us to stammer with Him

He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.

He regards it as the highest insult for the wicked to boast of His covenant while profaning His sacred Name by their whole lives.

Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.

There is no inconsistency when God raises up those who have fallen prostrate.

We are enjoined whenever we behold the gifts of God in others so to reverence and respect the gifts as also to honor those in whom they reside.

The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true sound wisdom consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.