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

✵ 10. Juli 1509 – 27. Mai 1564  •  Andere Namen جان کالون
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“There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.”

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

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

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John Calvin buch Institutes of the Christian Religion

Book 1 Chapter 1, p. 44
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559)
Kontext: 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.

“Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.”

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John Calvin buch Institutes of the Christian Religion

Quelle: Institutes of the Christian Religion

“It is better to limp in the way, than run with the greatest swiftness out of it.”

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John Calvin buch Institutes of the Christian Religion

Book 1, Chapter 6, p. 72
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559)

“A dog barks and stands at bay if he sees any one assault his master. I should be indeed remiss, if, seeing the truth of God thus attacked, I should remain dumb, without giving one note of warning.”

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Letter 130 (to the Queen of Navarre), 28 April, 1545.

“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.”

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“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.”

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“The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.”

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Quelle: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!
(Institutio III.2.3)”

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“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”

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“The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.”

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“men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success”

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“… a man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous…”

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“God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.”

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

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“If we cover and obliterate man’s faults and consider the beauty and dignity of God’s image in him, then we shall be induced to love and embrace him (Heb 12:16; Gal 6:10; Isa 58:7; Matt 5:44; Luke 17:3-4)”

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Page 38.
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)
Quelle: Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

“Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments. Though we fall short, our labour is not lost if this day surpasses the preceding one.”

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Page 23.
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)

“Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.”

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Quelle: Institutes of the Christian Religion

“Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.”

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“In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.”

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Quelle: Institutes of the Christian Religion

“For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God”

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“Faith is ultimately a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts by the Holy Spirit”

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Quelle: Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

“There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.”

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Page 39.
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)

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