John Calvin  - Quotes

 It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility  

Tags: absurdity   calvin   faith   humility   ignorance   knowledge     


John Calvin  - Quotes

 True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self. 

Tags: calvin   faith     
John Calvin  - Quotes

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

Tags: calvinism   creation   rejoice   splendorofcreation   theology     


Italo Calvino  - Quotes

 Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this way that reading proves fruitful to me. If a book truly interests me, I cannot follow it for more than a few lines before my mind, having seized on a thought that the text suggests to it, or a feeling, or a question, or an image, goes off on a tangent and springs from thought to thought, from image to image, in an itinerary of reasonings and fantasies that I feel the need to pursue to the end, moving away from the book until I have lost sight of it. The stimulus of reading is indispensable to me, and of meaty reading, even if, of every book, I manage to read no more than a few pages. But those few pages already enclose for me whole universes, which I can never exhaust. 

Tags: book   calvino   italo   night   reading   traveler     
Bill Watterson  - Quotes

 I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian! 

Tags: calvin   dessert   humor     
Robert L. Reymond  - Quotes

 ... apparently sees some value in the antiquity of the doctrine of ... This means absolutely nothing to me, for whom the Scriptures alone are my sole doctrinal authority, beyond the fact that this is just one more error of the ancient fathers. I could fill pages documenting other errors that the ancient fathers held and espoused.



Response to The Classic Arminian View of Election, page 135
 

Tags: calvinism   election   predestination     
Abraham Kuyper  - Quotes

 ...Calvinism claims to embody the Christian idea more purely and accurately ... (pg. 17) 

Tags: calvinism     
Bill Watterson  - Quotes

 Hey Dad, will you buy me a flame thrower?



Of course not. Don't be silly.



Even if I didn't use it in the house?
 

Tags: calvin     
John Calvin  - Quotes

 For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere.

(on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6)
 

Tags: astronomy   calvin   genesis     
Bill Watterson  - Quotes

 Hobbes: Do you think there's a God?

Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!
 

Tags: calvin   hobbes   life     
Bill Watterson  - Quotes

 I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends. 

Tags: calvin   hiccup   hobbes   humor     


Quotes of the Day