John Calvin

"The soul's highest function is to know God."

"Charity covers a multitude of sins."

"We must always be ready to give an account of our faith."

"God is the author of all good."

"The Christian life is a constant warfare against evil."

"True wealth is contentment of heart."

"We must love the Lord with all our strength."

"Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols."

"The human heart is an idol factory."

"We are not our own; therefore neither our reason nor our will should predominate in our deliberations and actions."

"God does not ask much of you. He asks everything of you."

"Ignorance is the mother of admiration."

"There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice."

"The greatest security for the Christian is not that he shall be free from temptations, but that the Savior is ready to succor him."

"Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God."

"All our knowledge concerning God is born of reverence."

"A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet remained silent."

"Believers are not exempt from the common diseases and calamities of life."

"God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind."

"Temperance is moderation in all things lawful, and abstinence from all things unlawful."

"The devil does not sleep, nor is he weary in his work; we ought not to be negligent in ours."

"Necessity reconciles us to strange bedfellows."

"Those who know nothing of God's Word know nothing of His power."

"To know God, we must know ourselves first."

"The office of a bishop is an arduous one; he must be constant in his prayers, in reading, in exhorting."

"Let us not lose the energy of our convictions even when we are abused for their sake."

"We are not to imagine that the voice of the people carries in it always the voice of God."

"Just as the eye cannot see itself except by reflection in a glass, so too man cannot know himself except by looking unto God."

"When we cannot see the hand of God, we can trust the heart of God."

"Boasting is not only a sin, but the root of all sin."