Crumbs from the Master's Table

"Here indeed is pure and real religion: faith so joined with an earnest fear of God that this fear also embraces willing reverence, and...

"All those who have the responsibility and duty of teaching the church of God must forget the favour and approval of the world; if they...

"He who knows Christ aright holds him fast, embraces him with both arms, is completely taken up with him, and desires nothing beyond hi...

Calvin: I call "piety" that reverence joined with love of God which the knowledge of his benefits induces. For until men recogni...

"Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's Majest...

"Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves...

Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) and John Calvin (1509–1564), two of the world's most prominent pastor-theologians, speak eloquently to the ...

"The only man who should be counted a real theologian is he who can build up men's consciences in the fear of God." —John Ca...

Whether Calvin believed in what came to be called in later Protestant theology "limited atonement" or "particular/definite re...

Calvin: St. Paul tells us [2 Tim. 3:12] that anyone desiring to live a holy life in Jesus Christ must expect persecution. God, it is true,...

Calvin: Let us fight for the cause of righteousness, that is to say, for what is just. It is not enough to make an indiscriminate peace. T...

Calvin commenting on what it means to be a "peacemaker" in Matt. 5:9: Meekness is part of being peaceable. If we are patient, it...

Calvin: Helping others amounts to nothing unless we are moved by a love which comes from the heart, and which bids us bear our share of th...

Calvin: What is pity? Briefly put, it is nothing else but the pain we feel at someone else's sorrow. A man may be healthy and content,...

Commenting on Isa. 57:20 in a sermon on Mt. 5:5-7 and Lk. 6:20-21, Calvin remarks: Only those blinded by vanity, lies, and prejudice will ...

Commenting on how the man Christ Jesus spent the entire night in prayer before calling his twelve disciples as apostles (Lk. 6:12-13), Calvi...

Preaching in the early 1560s on the call of the twelve apostles in Mk. 3:13-19 and Lk. 6:12-19, Calvin speaks powerfully of God's gracio...

"Let us not be ashamed to submit our understanding to God's boundless wisdom so far as to yield before its many secrets. For, of th...

Pius IV, hearing of Calvin's death, exlaimed: "Ah, the strength of that proud heretic lay in this, that riches and honour were no...

Calvin commenting perceptively and powerfully on 2 Tim. 1:7:  God governs his ministers by the spirit of power that is the opposite of th...