John Calvin Quotes

God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises.

The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.

We must choose with our agency to obey in faith that the promised blessing will come, that the promise is true because it comes from God.

The faith-based thing is really important for me. There are certain situations that I would not have been able to make through without the promises He makes and gave for us.

We are to yield to the authority God has in place, and look to Him to find out what He would have us to do about those things that are concerning to us.

My opinion is that I follow what the Lord says. Or I try to. Others are following what they want to do, basically. They are living for their self. I am living for God.

I mean to live my life as an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

I believe it's easy to serve God if we learn to hear from Him before we struggle to do things for Him that He never asked us to do.

Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and faith, when strengthened, will make thee fervent, and such fervency ever speeds and returns with victory out of the field of prayer. The mightier any is in the Word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.

Trust is not a passive state of mind. It is a vigorous act of the soul by which we choose to lay hold on the promises of God and cling to them despite the adversity that at times seeks to overwhelms us.

Although his time is not always our time, we can be sure that the lord keeps his promises.

Latter-day Saints are not obedient because they are compelled to be obedient. They are obedient because they know certain spiritual truths and have decided, as an expression of their own individual agency, to obey the commandments of God. . . . We are not obedient because we are blind, we are obedient because we can see

What else should we do with the Word of God but obey?

When God commands, do it!

God will never reveal more truth about himself until you have obeyed what you know already

When God speaks and we obey, we will always be right.

Simply put, the promises of God are not automatic; they must be acquired by faith.

As Christians, we say what God has said over and over until the thing promised in His Word and desired in our hearts is fully manifested in our lives.

To live outside of God's will puts us in danger; to live in his will makes us dangerous.

Nothing makes me want to obey more than knowing that God unconditionally loves me and forgives me even when I disobey.

If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.

When you suffer and lose, that does not mean you are being disobedient to God. In fact, it might mean you're right in the center of His will. The path of obedience is often marked by times of suffering and loss.

Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.

Take your dreams and the promises God has put in your heart, and every day declare that they will come to pass.