John Calvin Quotes

The Lord judgeth not as man judgeth; better to be cast out of the church than to deny Christ.

We receive by faith and we keep it by faith.

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.

They do not walk in... the path of Christ.

Being a Christian means accepting Christ as your savior, your God. That's why you are called a 'Christian.' If you remove Christ, there's only 'ian' and that means 'I am nothing.'

I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

Help us to recognize your voice, help us not to be allured by the madness of the world, so that we may never fall away from you, O Lord Jesus Christ.

If you keep your eyes fixed on Christ, He's going to reward you.

I guess, first and foremost, I'd like to thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

I've been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.

There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child of God and belongs to Him. And in Christ, we are made right with God, we are His righteousness, and we have the power of Christ in us to live right.

If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.

I value the Lord more than I value my career, because at the end of the day, when we die, we face him. We're going to wish that we did more on this earth for him. And so I want to make sure that I'm doing everything to glorify him.

To get to heaven, you have to work very hard. I want to go to heaven, so I will try to pray more.

I thought you had to be humble to become a saint, but a priest told me it takes all kinds to make it to heaven.

I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ... if I can't take him with me, I don't want to go.

To be "in Christ" is to place one's trust in Him for salvation from sin. To be "in Christ" is to trust His goodness, not our own; to trust that His sacrificial death on the cross paid the complete debt of death we owe for our sin; to trust that His resurrection gives us eternal life instead of relying upon our own ability to please God. To be "in Christ" is to claim, by faith, the free gift of salvation. To be "in Christ" is to enjoy a completely restored relationship with our Father in heaven by virtue of His Son's righteous standing.

I say to you dear young people: Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and He gives you verything. When we give ourselves to him, we receive a hundredfold in return. Yes, open, open wide the doors to Christ and you will find true life.

If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing to you.

God would rather give up His son..than give up on us

O turn to Him [Jesus Christ], turn in a sense of your own unworthiness, and be not faithless, but believing.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.