Top 100 Calvin's Quotes
#1. He took Calvin's hand, and like every other time in their lives, Calvin followed Ethan blindly and willingly.
Charlie Cochet
#2. The way Calvin's brain is wired you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
Bill Watterson
#3. Only a misunderstanding of Calvin's theology could prompt the question Why pray if God is sovereign? The Reformer himself might turn the question back on us: Why pray if God isn't sovereign?
Michael S. Horton
#4. Many argue that Christianity is "different" from other religions - that it is primarily about love of one's fellow man. The Crusades, The Inquisition, Calvin's Geneva all prove that this is not the case. These events were pre-eminently about obedience to authority.
Andrew Bernstein
#5. I'm different,and I like being different."Calvin's voice was unnaturally loud.
"Maybe I don't like being different,"Meg said."but I don't want to be like everybody else,either.
Madeleine L'Engle
#6. Calvin: "I read this library book you got me."
Calvin's Mom: "What did you think of it?"
Calvin: "It really made me see things differently. It's given me a lot to think about."
Calvin's Mom: "I'm glad you enjoyed it."
Calvin: "It's complicating my life. Don't get me any more.
Bill Watterson
#7. Cigars are all the rage, dad. You should smoke cigars!" - Calvin
"Flatulence could be all the rage, but it would still be disgusting." - Calvin's mom
Bill Watterson
#8. The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.
Bernard Bailyn
#9. This may be the most valuable and the most challenging thing we can learn from Calvin's ecclesiology today: that the church is not something that we form of our own accord. It is not a product of our reaching out to God, but a gift of God reaching out to us.107
Michael S. Horton
#10. The quality which gave such force to Calvin's teaching was his close adherence to the Bible as an inspired and authoritative book.
Loraine Boettner
#11. It is not, in Calvin's view, that we sin because we believe the wrong things; it is, rather, that we believe the wrong things because we sin.
Russell D. Moore
#12. His [Calvin's] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is ... a demon of malignant spirit. It would be more pardonable to believe in no God at all, than to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin
Thomas Jefferson
#13. Indifference to all the refinements of life
it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.
Aldous Huxley
#14. Tomorrow's past is yesterday's future and is presently undetermined.
Calvin W. Allison
#15. Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are trying to palm off McGovern buttons and Howdy Doody puppets and their Aunt Thelma's toaster as antiques.
Calvin Trillin
#16. Before we receive any knowledge of God's Fatherly good will for us, the blood of Christ must intercede for us and restore us to God's favor. Besides,
John Calvin
#17. I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and underwear.
Calvin Klein
#18. It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
Calvin Klein
#19. It's a funny world, Hobbes."
"True."
"But it's not a hilarious world. ... unless you like sick humour."
"The world is probably funnier to people who don't live here.
Bill Watterson
#20. There's more, much more, to Christmas Than candlelight and cheer; It's the spirit of sweet friendship That brightens all year. It's thoughtfulness and kindness, It's hope reborn again, For peace, for understanding, And for goodwill to men!
Calvin Coolidge
#21. Thus our arrogance grows as we seek to exalt ourselves above others, as if we were different from them. Truly, there's no one who does not flippantly and boldly disregard and despise others as inferiors. Yes,
John Calvin
#22. Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.
Calvin Klein
#23. Wine is God's special drink. The purpose of good wine is to inspire us to a livelier sense of gratitude to God. - John Calvin
Lauren F. Winner
#24. We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.
John Calvin
#25. We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.
John Calvin
#26. desires," I mean things we feel that we need or want very strongly. There's an element of passion in the experience of desire
Calvin D. Banyan
#27. We need his kingdom to "come." Calvin believed there were two ways God's kingdom comes - through the Spirit, who "corrects our desires," and through the Word of God, which "shapes our thoughts.
Timothy Keller
#28. If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it's value? If we doubted its genuineness - we would test it by fire ... and so God with us ...
John Calvin
#29. I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
Calvin Klein
#30. the Bible was to him the vehicle of God's power first, and secondly of our knowledge of Him.
John Calvin
#31. We are taught that the salvation of all the elect is as certain as that God's power is invincible. Besides,
John Calvin
#32. From the shoulders, slowly a pair of wings unfolded, wings made of rainbows, of light upon water, of poetry.
Calvin fell to his knees.
"No," Mrs. Whatsit said, though her voice was not Mrs. Whatsit's voice. "Not to me Calvin. Never to me. Stand up.
Madeleine L'Engle
#33. Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.
John Calvin
#34. Inward battles had lost their chains in the new dawn of Ed's night, and victories were cheering in the calm welcome of new thoughts carrying new perspectives that warmed the tone of his confidence, and made it glow.
Calvin W. Allison
#35. There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it.
Calvin Klein
#36. The American Dream is a constant reminder that America's true nature and distinctive grandeur is in promising the common man, thr man on the make, a better chance to succeed here than common men enjoy anywhere else on earth.
Pursuing the American Dream, 9, 269
Calvin C. Jillson
#37. Whensoever God's truth is defaced or when any man turns away from the pure simplicity of the Gospel, we must not in any wise spare him, but although the whole world should set itself against us, yet must we maintain the case with invincible constancy, without bending for any creature.
John Calvin
#38. Joey broke the silence. "MS?" he asked.
"Microsoft," said Calvin. "Or multiple sclerosis. Computer programs everyone has to use, or a debilitating disease. That's life, in a nutshell.
David Pratt
#39. Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.
John Calvin
#40. When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God's promises have strong confirmation in Christ.
John Calvin
#41. The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.
Calvin Trillin
#42. In condemning, therefore, the vices of a father, a truly pious son will subscribe to God's Law; and still, whatsoever he may be, will acknowledge that he is to be honored, as being the father given him by God.
John Calvin
#43. Do you want to sing and play psalms? Then not only must your voice sing God's praises but your actions must keep in tune with your voice.
Calvin R. Stapert
#44. Be glad for tomorrow and love today while it's here.
Because tomorrow it will be gone.
Calvin W. Allison
#45. The subject then of these chapters may be stated thus, - man's only righteousness is through the mercy of God in Christ, which being offered by the Gospel is apprehended by faith.
John Calvin
#46. Since men's nature is prone to hypocrisy, it is easy for Satan to persuade them that the true worship of God consists in ceremonies and outward discipline; men
John Calvin
#47. Wake up, get up ... Shut up. Listen up ... Throw up ... Mix up, Goof up ... Hurry up ... "
"How's your day?"
"Looking up.
Bill Watterson
#48. For Nazareth was ordained to be Christ's home, so that he might bear the name of Nazarene which was rightly his.
John Calvin
#49. So it's fate then?" I asked with him so close my lips brushed the line of his jaw with each word, "Us being together?"
"Absolutely," Calvin said with a low growl. Then he lifted my chin, tilting my head back, and kissed me deeply.
Who was I to argue with Fate?
E.J. Stevens
#50. It seems harsh to many to think that God chooses some and rejects others, and does not consider men's worth, that by his own free will he chooses whom he pleases and moreover rejects others. But what is this scruple except a desire to call God to order and subject him to their judgment?
John Calvin
#51. No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight.
John Calvin
#52. Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
Calvin Klein
#53. But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
Bill Watterson
#54. It's incredible to be working with Mr Armani and his team at Emporio Armani. I feel an affinity to the brand ethos and have been a long time admirer of their designs.
Calvin Harris
#55. Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.
John Calvin
#56. There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'
Calvin Johnson
#57. Because the will renewed is the Lord's work, it is wrongly attributed to man that he obeys prevenient grace with his will as attendant.
John Calvin
#58. Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
John Calvin
#59. Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee and you ought to be ashamed to have turned in such preposterous answers!
Calvin: I just don't test well.
Bill Watterson
#60. Peace and friendship are an amiable thing among men. They be so indeed, and we ought to seek them to the uttermost of our power. But yet for all that, we must set such store by God's truth, that if all the world should be set on fire for the maintenance thereof, we should not stick at it.
John Calvin
#61. Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
Calvin Klein
#62. Man's disposition voluntarily so inclines to falsehood that he more quickly derives error from one word than truth from a wordy discourse. In
John Calvin
#63. It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
Bill Watterson
#64. When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
Calvin Trillin
#65. But Christ offered himself as a sacrifice for men's eternal redemption and he alone officiated in that priestly act. He
John Calvin
#66. Donald Coggan's wisdom: "When true preaching takes place, the main actor is not the preacher, nor the congregation, but the Holy Spirit."15
Calvin Miller
#67. All those who storm heaven like giants, without Christ's help, are deprived of any right knowledge of God. Anyone,
John Calvin
#68. All things being at God's disposal, and the decision of salvation or death belonging to him, he orders all things by his counsel and decree in such a manner, that some men are born devoted from the womb to certain death, that his name may be glorified in their destruction.
John Calvin
#69. Back in the '40's, Lyndon Johnson could still steal a Senate election in South Texas with the help of the big patrons.
Calvin Jillson
#70. Beauty is ugly's greatest disguise. Look with your heart and not with your eyes.
Calvin W. Allison
#71. I used a lot of what we call the "Shred-mill." It's like a treadmill, but you're basically running up hill and it's getting faster as you go. It definitely helped at the combine because it teaches you drive phases, how to pump your arms and how to use different aspects of your body.
Calvin Pryor
#72. For by a kind of mutual bond the Lord has joined together the certainty of his Word and of his Spirit so that the perfect religion of the Word may abide in our minds when the Spirit, who causes us to contemplate God's face, shines.
John Calvin
#73. BThere is, indeed, nothing that man's nature seeks more eagerly than to be flattered.
John Calvin
#74. My men's-underwear print ads are very popular!
Calvin Klein
#75. Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.
Calvin Seerveld
#76. Now, if any one should object, that it is unjust for the innocent to bear the punishment of another's sin, I answer, whatever gifts God had conferred upon us in the person of Adams he had the best right to take away, when Adam wickedly fell.
John Calvin
#77. When it comes to underwear, there's nothing worse than a visible panty line. Sometimes it seems like nobody knows that seamless underwear exists. But Calvin Klein makes them. Commando makes them. Hanky Panky makes them. You don't need a drawer full; a few pairs will suffice.
Brad Goreski
#78. I love pop music. I love drum and bass, Calvin Harris, all these electronic things, but it's nice to have something organic as well.
Gabrielle Aplin
#79. There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him.
John Calvin
#80. Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.
Bill Griffith
#81. Intensity is both the communicator's best friend and worst enemy. To really hold an audience, they must sense that what you are saying is important, at least to you.
Calvin Miller
#82. I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
Calvin Johnson
#83. Faith was a gift of God whose main function was to create in man a certain knowledge of God's goodness toward us. The
John Calvin
#84. County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when ... Hello?
Bill Watterson
#85. So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.
John Calvin
#86. The majority of the American population had questioned the justification for the war in Vietnam. They did not appreciate the government's rationale for sending American boys to die halfway around the world; communists in Vietnam had absolutely nothing to do with them.
Calvin Murphy
#87. I don't know if I've got swept up. It's so shocking when you hear that Calvin Klein wants you for their new campaign. You're like, 'who me?'. I guess you have to decide where you draw the line between you saying, this is fun, pretty and fabulous, and being over-exposed.
Scarlett Johansson
#88. It's all about where you're going, no matter where you've been.
Calvin Harris
#89. Don't tell me that you have a Reformed Church in the tradition of Calvin until you have the preaching of the Word every day of the week, devote Wednesday's to prayer and have the church gather together for prayer.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#90. Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions.
Bill Watterson
#91. It's harder to be a poor person than anything else.
Kathy Calvin
#93. I really like Calvin Klein for his classic simplicity. I also think Prabal Gurung designs some great pieces that work well for me. My mom has such great style; she's my biggest influence.
Isabelle Fuhrman
#94. When the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly all those countries had burgeoning democracies, women were still being left out. The big turning point, about ten years ago, was moving from a notion of empowering women to actually looking at where you can make the most difference, and it's in a girl's life.
Kathy Calvin
#95. Here, if any where, in considering the hidden mysteries of Scripture, we should speculate soberly and with great moderation, cautiously guarding against allowing either our mind or our tongue to go a step beyond the confines of God's word.
John Calvin
#96. I vaguely remember in the '90s when Calvin Klein started making unisex CK1. Don't worry about whether it's made for men or women. Listen, we all like to put mum's clothes on sometimes. What's important is that it feels right for you.
Mark Ronson
#97. It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.
Calvin Trillin
#98. Unless we ardently and prayerfully devote ourselves to Christ's righteousness we do not only faithlessly revolt from our Creator, but we also abjure him as our Savior.
John Calvin
#99. Change is difficult, but necessary for salvation. Turn from your sins and acknowledge Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Let Him take control of your life. He won't let you down. He's not you. He's God.
Calvin W. Allison
#100. The faith of the gospel is called the knowledge of God's grace; for no one has ever tasted of the gospel but the man that knew himself to be reconciled to God, and took hold of the salvation that is held forth in Christ.
John Calvin
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