John Calvin

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

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

A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)