Frases de Juan Calvino

Juan Calvino , bautizado con el nombre de Jehan Cauvin, latinizado como Calvinus, fue un teólogo francés, considerado como uno de los padres de la Reforma Protestante. Más tarde, las doctrinas fundamentales de posteriores reformadores se identificarían con él, llamando a estas doctrinas «calvinismo». Particularmente los «cinco puntos del calvinismo» surgen de los discípulos de Juan Calvino como contraposición a las doctrinas de los discípulos de Jacobo Arminio.

✵ 10. julio 1509 – 27. mayo 1564  •  Otros nombres جان کالون

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Frases célebres de Juan Calvino

“La meta de la nueva vida en Cristo es que los hijos de Dios exhiban la “melodía y armonía” de Dios en su conducta. ¿Qué melodía? La canción del Dios de justicia. ¿Qué armonía? La armonía entre la justicia de Dios y nuestra obediencia.”

El libro de Oro de la verdadera vida cristiana

“Un perro ladra cuando su amo es atacado. Yo sería un cobarde si es atacada la verdad de Dios y permanezco en silencio.”

“Nadie está excluido de pedir a Dios, la puerta de la salvación está abierta para todos los hombres.”

“Hay que recordar que el diablo tiene sus milagros, también.”

“La mente del hombre es como una tienda de idolatrías y supersticiones.”

“Todas las cosas están a disposición de Dios, y la decisión de la salvación o la muerte perteneciente a él.”

Juan Calvino Frases y Citas

“Sin conocimiento de uno mismo no hay conocimiento de Dios.”

“Si una mujer expulsa el feto de su vientre con drogas, esto es un crimen inexpiable por Dios.”

“La tortura de una mala conciencia es el infierno de un alma viviente.”

“No hay un poco de brizna de hierba, no hay color en este mundo que no tenga la intención de hacer que los hombres se regocijen.”

“Cada uno de nosotros es, incluso desde el vientre de nuestra madre, un maestro artesano de ídolos.”

Juan Calvino: Frases en inglés

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

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Sermon Number 10 on I Corinthians, 698. As quoted in John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait (1989) by William J. Bouwsma, pp. 134–135.
Epistles to the Corinthians

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

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John Calvin libro Institutes of the Christian Religion

Book 1 Chapter 1, p. 44
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559)
Contexto: Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.

“There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.”

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“Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.”

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John Calvin libro Institutes of the Christian Religion

Fuente: Institutes of the Christian Religion

“It is better to limp in the way, than run with the greatest swiftness out of it.”

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John Calvin libro Institutes of the Christian Religion

Book 1, Chapter 6, p. 72
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536; 1559)

“A dog barks and stands at bay if he sees any one assault his master. I should be indeed remiss, if, seeing the truth of God thus attacked, I should remain dumb, without giving one note of warning.”

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Letter 130 (to the Queen of Navarre), 28 April, 1545.

“We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.”

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“If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,… it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.”

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“The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.”

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Fuente: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!
(Institutio III.2.3)”

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“A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.”

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“There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.”

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“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.”

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“A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent”

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“Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.”

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“The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.”

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“men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success”

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“… a man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous…”

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“God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.”

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“However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.”

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“If we cover and obliterate man’s faults and consider the beauty and dignity of God’s image in him, then we shall be induced to love and embrace him (Heb 12:16; Gal 6:10; Isa 58:7; Matt 5:44; Luke 17:3-4)”

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Page 38.
Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)
Fuente: Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

“Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments. Though we fall short, our labour is not lost if this day surpasses the preceding one.”

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Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)

“All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions”

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“Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.”

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John Calvin libro Institutes of the Christian Religion

Fuente: Institutes of the Christian Religion

“Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.”

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“Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?”

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“In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.”

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John Calvin libro Institutes of the Christian Religion

Fuente: Institutes of the Christian Religion

“For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God”

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“Faith is ultimately 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 by the Holy Spirit”

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Fuente: Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

“There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.”

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Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life (1551)

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