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Johannes Calvin

Geburtstag: 10. Juli 1509
Todesdatum: 27. Mai 1564
Andere Namen:جان کالون

Johannes Calvin war ein Reformator französischer Abstammung und Begründer des Calvinismus. Er gilt als Vertreter einer kerygmatischen Theologie.

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„We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.“

— John Calvin

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

— John Calvin
Sermon Number 10 on I Corinthians, 698. As quoted in John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait (1989) by William J. Bouwsma, pp. 134–135.

„There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.“

— John Calvin

„If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,... it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.“

— John Calvin

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

— John Calvin

„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“

— John Calvin

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

— John Calvin
Context: Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other. Book 1 Chapter 1, p. 44