Quotes about Sin
If you shall be paid what you deserve, you must be punished. What then happens? God has not rendered you the punishment you deserve, but bestows undeserved grace. If you would be estranged from grace, boast of your own merits." Again: "Of yourself you are nothing. Sins are your own, but merits are God's. You deserve punishment, and when the reward comes he will crown his own gifts, not your merits.
— John Calvin
For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?
— John Calvin
Satan accuses God of falsehoods of envy, and of malignity, and our first parents subscribe to a calumny thus vile and execrable.
— John Calvin
error never can be eradicated from the heart of man until the true knowledge of God has been implanted in it. Section
— John Calvin
The greatest victory of God took place when Christ, having overcome sin, conquered death, and put Satan to flight, was lifted up to heaven in majesty, that he might reign gloriously over the church. Therefore
— John Calvin
Therefore, men get nothing from the law but condemnation, for in the law God demands his due, but does not confer the power to pay it properly. The
— John Calvin
I say therefore that he sins against the Holy Spirit who, while so constrained by the power of divine truth that he cannot plead ignorance, yet deliberately resists, and that merely for the sake of resisting.
— John Calvin
Man stands under the devil's power, and indeed willingly
— John Calvin
The fact is that unless we are extricated by the grace of Christ, we remain subject to the violence of a whole mass of innumerable evils.
— John Calvin
Error can never be eradicated from the heart of man until the true knowledge of God has been implanted in it.
— John Calvin
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
when we are angered by the sins of others, we should beware lest a temptation of an opposite kind should take possession of our minds.
— John Calvin