A Little Dose of Calvin

These cut straight to my heart. Funny how I get exactly what I need to hear from reading a textbook about a guy who lived five hundred years ago. Thought I'd share the experience to whoever may come across this little page of thoughts.

"For, if we would be like angels in the pulpit, but subsequently would lead a licentious life and people would detect in our life nothing but contempt for God, that we were mockers and vain people, what would that communicate?"
-John Calvin

"Those who proclaim the Word of God faithfully must therefore be listened to, as if God himself descends from heaven to the listeners."
-John Calvin

"But we know that God considers nothing higher than His honor, and it consists especially in this, that people know Him and that poor souls are led to salvation. Let us, therefore, not be surprised when our Lord desires that His Gospel is proclaimed with so much zeal that nothing can prevent its course. For the only means by which people may be saved is to be instructed in the teaching of the Gospel."
-John Calvin