Quotes about Truth
Having once adopted us and enlightened our minds by his Word, he keeps the torch of the Word blazing before our eyes, that we may in faith keep our minds upon the judgment and punishment of evil which the impious confidently ignore.
— John Calvin
For unquestionably nothing is more opposed to the law of God than sects, for in it is communicated the truth of God, which is the bond of unity.
— John Calvin
Without the Word, there is nothing left for us but darkness.
— John Calvin
the only way the false teachers can make sail against us is by appearing to be endowed with the Spirit of God. But
— John Calvin
the Bible was to him the vehicle of God's power first, and secondly of our knowledge of Him.
— 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
Faith needs to be bound directly to the Word of God; for, according to Paul, faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God (Rom. 10:17). And
— John Calvin
Where do all the labyrinths of error in the world come from [the objector will continue], if not from the fact that when men follow their own minds they land in vanity and lies? So
— John Calvin
But it is none the less true that men do not come to God by way of their own reason; neither do they in this way get near to him, because all their intelligence is but vanity. Whence
— John Calvin
True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
— 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
True knowledge of God and of the secret of his wisdom comes from faith, because the obedience of faith opens to us the gate of the Kingdom of Heaven.
— John Calvin