When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

John Calvin

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

John Calvin

When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

John Calvin

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

John Calvin

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.

John Calvin

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

John Calvin

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

John Calvin

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

John Calvin

Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

John Calvin

Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.

John Calvin

If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.

John Calvin

Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.

John Calvin