Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.
John CalvinTags: mercy grace-of-god
He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.
John CalvinPrayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
John CalvinTags: prayer perseverance steadfastness
Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
John CalvinTags: lifestyle-witness
He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.
John CalvinTags: sin glory-of-god
When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.
John CalvinTags: selfishness envy
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.
John CalvinTags: politeness respect leadership submission graciousness
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.
John CalvinTags: charity image-of-god graciousness
We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.
John CalvinTags: charity human-dignity image-of-god
The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.
John CalvinTags: passion materialism discipleship
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