John Calvin Quotes

The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.

You can think too highly of your interpretations of Scripture, but you cannot think too highly of Scriptures interpretation of itself. You can exaggerate your authority in handling the Scriptures, but you cannot exaggerate the Scriptures authority to handle you. You can use the word of God to come to wrong conclusions, but you cannot find any wrong conclusions in the word of God.

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.

There must be no inventing or recounting to the people of new things … uncanonical and according to their own taste rather than the Holy Scriptures.

I believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.

It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that from the decision of the word of God there can be no appeal.

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.

Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.

The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

The problem is, I think, that so many of us pray as if we are ordering groceries. We pick up the telephone and say, 'Is this the right place to place my order?' and we proceed right to dictating our order. When we have then ended that list, we hang up.

Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.

No writer of a portion of the Bible was perfect. It was the direct and miraculous operation of the Holy Spirit that what they wrote is without mistake.

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

We are not called upon to enter into controversy with those who hold false theories. Controversy is unprofitable. Christ never entered into it. 'It is written' is the weapon used by the world's Redeemer. Let us keep close to the Word. Let us allow the Lord Jesus and His messengers to testify. We know that their testimony is true.

But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.

The Bible is … authoritative on everything of which it speaks. And it speaks of everything.

No one will ever convince me that the word of God is not true.

We were supposed to be able to use the Bible's words to explain what we were doing, and if we couldn't do that, then we shouldn't be doing it.

Our loyalty is not to our grandparents, the traditions, our volleyball team, our friends; as believers, our loyalty is to Scripture.

Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God

We must not build on the sands of an uncertain and everchanging science...but upon the rock of inspired Scriptures.

Therefore, let God inspired Scripture decide between us; and on whichever side be found doctrines in harmony with the Word of God, in favor of that side will be cast the vote of truth

To ignore Scripture is to ignore Christ.