Everyone loves celebrating a birthday! Cake, balloons and freinds! Everyone is also a little bit unique in how they celebrate their birthday. My litle sister Bronwyn(aka the Monster Bronster raar) for example had a 'monster' themed party a few weeks ago to celebrate her 21st.
Well tomorrow John Calvin hits the big 500. Its a pretty important birthday to celebrate and people all over the world will be celebrating it through theological conferences, growing their beards and releasing their urges to destroy stained glass windows! My family for example are celebrating it by having a special "family fun time" tomorrow night! But I thought that we could celebrate it in our own modest way by looking at some of his best short quotes! Not as good as reading the Insititutes of course, but still good. Enjoy.
"Now we shall possess a right definition of faith if we call it a firm and certain knowledge of God's benevolence toward us, founded upon the truth of the freely given promise in Christ, both revealed to our minds and sealed upon our hearts through the Holy Spirit."
"Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of his fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil. It is the Heavenly Father's will thus to exercise them so as to put his own children to a definite test. Beginning with Christ, his first-born, he follows this plan with all his children."
"God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us -- as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray."
"All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors."
"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."
"It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"; for faith consists in the knowledge of God and Christ, not in reverence for the Church."
"Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols."
"There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice."
Do you have a favourite one? Any ones that I missed and should have included?
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Do you wish you were in Geneva right now for the big celebration?
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