Jean Morán > Jean's Quotes

“...a man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous...”
― John Calvin

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis

“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

“A book is a suicide postponed.”
― Cioran

“We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.”
― 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

“There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.”
― John Calvin

“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.”
― John Calvin

“True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.”
― John Calvin

“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”
― John Calvin

“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.”
― John Calvin, Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.”
― John Calvin

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

“Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.”
― John Calvin

“There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.”
― John Calvin

“God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.”
― John Calvin

“No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!”
― John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion

“All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions”
― John Calvin

“Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.”
― John Calvin, The Institutes of the Christian Religion

“Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.”
― John Calvin, The Institutes of the Christian Religion

“Bien que les étoiles ne parlent pas, même en étant silencieux, ils crient.
Although the stars do not speak, even in being silent they cry out.”
― Jean Calvin

“This is why Paul upholds the teaching of the gospel in such a forceful way ... Seeing such an example and such a picture of man’s great weakness and fickleness, Paul states that the truth of the gospel must supersede anything that we may devise … he is showing us that we ought to know the substance of the doctrine which is brought to us in the name of God, so that our faith can be fully grounded upon it. Then we will not be tossed about with every wind, nor will we wander about aimlessly, changing our opinions a hundred times a day; we will persist in this doctrine until the end. This, in brief, is what we must remember.”
― John Calvin, Sermons on Galatians

“It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ.”
― John Calvin

“The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the orchestra, as it were—the most conspicuous part of it; and the nearer the approaches are that God makes to us, the more intimate and condescending the communication of his benefits, the more attentively are we called to consider them.”
― John Calvin, Commentary on Psalms - Volume 5

“For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere.
(on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6)”
― John Calvin

“He only who is reduced to nothing in himself, and relies on the mercy of God is poor in spirit”
― John Calvin

“All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.”
― John Calvin

“Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.”
― John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols