John Calvin on Family
Browse 7 quotations attributed to John Calvin, catalogued under family, with dates where available.
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Attributed to John Calvin, entry #236852: "It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor."
Attributed to John Calvin, entry #199258: "Since God has revealed himself as a Father, we would be guilty of the basest ingratitude if we did not behave as his children."
7 Quotes by John Calvin on Family
"It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor."
"Since God has revealed himself as a Father, we would be guilty of the basest ingratitude if we did not behave as his children."
"When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?"
"Everyone flatters himself and carries a kingdom in his breast."
"Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction."
"That they may not become too complacent or delighted in married life, he makes them distressed by the shortcomings of their partners, or humbles them through willful offspring, or afflicts them with the want or loss of children. But, if in all these matters he is more merciful to them, he shows them by diseases and dangers how unstable and passing all mortal blessings are, that they may not be puffed up with vain glory."
"calls Mary the mother of her Lord. This denotes a unity of person in the two natures of Christ; as if she had said, that he who was begotten a mortal man in the womb of Mary is, at the same time, the eternal God.... This name Lord strictly belongs to the Son of God 'manifested in the flesh,' who has received from the Father all power, and has been appointed the highest ruler of heaven and earth, that by his agency God may govern all things."