“Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.”
More from John Calvin on Faith
“True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.”
“Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.”
“Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.”
“We unlearn the art of speaking well when we cease to speak with God.”
“Faith consists not in ignorance but in knowledge and that not only of God but also of the divine will.”
“Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us and a certain persuasion of His veracity.”
“The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.”
“The knowledge of ourselves, therefore, is not only an incitement to seek after God, but likewise a considerable assistance towards finding him.”
“There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.”
“However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.”
Others on Faith
Elizabeth George
30 quotes“God’s Word is written for you and to you, but it won’t help unless you read it.”
Saint Augustine
27 quotes“Faith is to believe what we do not see the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.”
John Piper
27 quotes“The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature”
Billy Graham
26 quotes“Not everyone Jesus tried to turn back from the brink of destruction responded—nor will they with us.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
24 quotes“May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner.”
Rick Warren
24 quotes“God is always more interested in why we do something than in what we do. Attitudes count more than achievements.”
A.W. Tozer
22 quotes“As the sailor locates his position on the sea by "shooting" the sun, so we may get our moral bearings by looking at God....”
Charles Spurgeon
20 quotes“Thy faith never looks so grand in summer weather as it does in winter?”
C.S. Lewis
17 quotes“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”
Max Lucado
17 quotes“When grace moves in... guilt moves out”
Joel Osteen
16 quotes“You need to take pride in what God has given you.”
Jesus Christ
14 quotes“I Am The Way, The Truth and The Life; no one comes to The Father but by Me”