John Calvin Quotes


You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.


Citations

Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion. Translated by Ford Lewis Battles, Westminster Press, 1960, Book III, Chap. 7, Sec. 5.

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John Calvin
John Calvin
  • Born: July 10, 1509
  • Died: May 27, 1564
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Reformer, Minister, Author

John Calvin was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism, aspects of which include the doctrines of predestination and of the absolute sovereignty of God in salvation of the human soul from death and eternal damnation, in which doctrines Calvin was influenced by and elaborated upon the Augustinian and other Christian traditions. Various Congregational, Reformed and Presbyterian churches, which look to Calvin as the chief expositor of their beliefs, have spread throughout the world.