John Calvin

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.

It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.

Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.

Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever the many are seen to do, forthwith obtains the force of custom. But human affairs have scarcely ever been so happily constituted as that the better course pleased the greater number. Hence the private vices of the multitude have generally resulted in public error, or rather that common consent in vice which these worthy men would have to be law.

It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.

... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.

It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.

It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.

Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings, yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up with wicked and erroneous sentiments.

God is not limited to any person, but calls freely whomsoever He pleases, and bestows on those who are called whatever rewards He thinks fit.

When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.

Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.

In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.

God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.

I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.

For 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.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.