{"author":"John Calvin","author_id":"John+Calvin","total_quotes":73,"quotes":[{"text":"Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.","author":"John Calvin","tags":["christianity","the-bible","theology"],"id":887,"author_id":"John+Calvin"},{"text":"For very few persons are concerned about the way that leads to heaven, but all are anxious to know, before the time, what passes there.","author":"John Calvin","tags":["faith","heaven"],"id":1652,"author_id":"John+Calvin"},{"text":"The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.","author":"John Calvin","tags":["discipleship","materialism","passion"],"id":17500,"author_id":"John+Calvin"},{"text":"Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. For when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success.","author":"John Calvin","tags":["wisdom"],"id":27382,"author_id":"John+Calvin"},{"text":"The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the orchestra, as it were—the most conspicuous part of it; and the nearer the approaches are that God makes to us, the more intimate and condescending the communication of his benefits, the more attentively are we called to consider them.","author":"John Calvin","tags":["church","glory","god","theatrum-gloriae-dei"],"id":39711,"author_id":"John+Calvin"},{"text":"[They] pervert the course of nature [by saying] the sun does not move and that it is the earth that revolves and that it turns.[John Calvin illustrating his opposition to heliocentrism in a sermon due to the Bible's support of geocentrism].","author":"John Calvin","tags":["astronomy","bible","biblical-cosmology","geocentricism","heliocentrism","science","science-and-religion","scripture","the-bible"],"id":41868,"author_id":"John+Calvin"},{"text":"The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.","author":"John Calvin","tags":["humanity","worship"],"id":42111,"author_id":"John+Calvin"},{"text":"But the Lord often leaves his servants, not only to be annoyed by the violence of the wicked, but to be lacerated and destroyed; allows the good to languish in obscurity and squalid poverty, while the ungodly shine forth, as it were, among the stars; and even by withdrawing the light of his countenance does not leave them lasting joy. Wherefore, David by no means disguises the fact, that if believers fix their eyes on the present condition of the world, they will be grievously tempted to believe that with God integrity has neither favour nor reward; so much does impiety prosper and flourish, while the godly are oppressed with ignominy, poverty, contempt, and every kind of cross. The Psalmist says, 'But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. For I was envious of the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.' At length, after a statement of the case, he concludes, 'When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me: until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end,' (Ps. 73:2, 3, 16, 17).","author":"John Calvin","tags":["theology"],"id":42281,"author_id":"John+Calvin"},{"text":"We shall never arrive at true meekness by any other way than by humiliating ourselves and by honoring others from the depth of our hearts.","author":"John Calvin","tags":["devotional","inspiring"],"id":46147,"author_id":"John+Calvin"},{"text":"There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.","author":"John Calvin","tags":["work","before","however "],"id":57716,"author_id":"John+Calvin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":73,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}