Logo
Quote by John Calvin
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence i

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. – John Calvin

Other quotes by John Calvin

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. – John Calvin

Category:
Knowledge
Author
John Calvin
Read Quote

Mans mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain. – John Calvin

Category:
God
Author
John Calvin
Read Quote

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. – John Calvin

Category:
Freedom
Author
John Calvin
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Intelligence
category

Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get. – Frank Carlucci

Category:
Intelligence

The day after the prison was transferred to the military intelligence command, they had an entire battalion – 1,200, 1,500 soldiers – arrive at Abu Ghraib just for force protection alone. – Janis Karpinski

Category:
Intelligence

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. – Barbara Walters

Category:
Intelligence

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. – Lewis Thomas

Category:
Intelligence

Random Quotes

Its your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and dont take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver. – Betty White

Category:
Humor

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Category:
Friendship

I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl. – Sandra Bullock

Category:
mom

I never have planned a whole lot of future. Its one day at a time. – Darrell Royal

Category:
Future