John Calvin

“The human heart is a perpetual idol factory.”

“A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.”

“There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.”

“True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.”

“However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.”

“Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.”

“Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.”

“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.”

“All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions.”

“Without the Gospel, everything is useless and vain.”

“We are not our own; therefore, in so far as we can, let us forget ourselves and all that is our own.”

“Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.”

“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.”

“You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.”

“The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.”