John Calvin - Hope Quotes

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To have a proper understanding of the gospel, we must recognise that we need to lean entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ and his mercy alone as our only hope of salvation.... No one can be justified by the law; justification is through faith alone.

John Calvin

The voluntary spilling of semen outside of intercourse between man and woman is a monstrous thing. Deliberately to withdraw from coitus in order that semen may fall on the ground is doubly monstrous. For this is to extinguish the hope of the race and to kill before he is born the hoped-for offspring.

John Calvin

The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

John Calvin