Quotes about Author
The whole Epistle is so methodical, that even its very beginning is framed according to the rules of art.
— John Calvin
It is absurd to boast of zeal for the law, when one neglects the divine interpretation of it.
— John Calvin
I leave it to the philosophers to discuss these faculties in their subtle way. For the upbuilding of godliness a simple definition will be enough for us.
— John Calvin
Desire is bridled when we acknowledge that all thing given to us are given in order that we might know their author.
— John Calvin
If I were inclined to compile a whole volume from Augustine, I could easily show my readers, that I need no words but his.
— John Calvin
Thus Paul denies that the causes of our election can be sought anywhere except in the hidden good pleasure of God.
— John Calvin
It is not fitting that God, before whose tribunal we must all finally stand, be subjected to our judgment — or rather to our foolish temerity.
— John Calvin
The sum is, that man cannot claim a single particle of righteousness to himself, without at the same time detracting from the glory of the divine righteousness.
— John Calvin
God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
— John Donne
All mankind is of one Author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.
— John Donne
An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
— Graham Greene
Such sober certainty of waking bliss.
— John Milton