Quotes by Jean Calvin

“Bien que les étoiles ne parlent pas, même en étant silencieux, ils crient.Although the stars do not speak, even in being silent they cry out.””

“Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.””

“I fell in love with Caligula and now I'm married to Calvin.””

“Nonetheless, by the time we arrive at the eighteenth century and the time of the founders, marriage and the family came to look very much as Aristotle had pictured it. In the previous centuries, Lutheran reforms had lodged marriage into the civil structure of society and made it more a concern of civil law,11 but, joined by Calvin, Protestantism retained parental control over the right of children to marry. John Locke, however, saw marriage as contracted political society, and thus his image of the family as a commonwealth made up of combined individuals parallel his image of the formation of the larger political commonwealth as well.12 Furthermore, Locke declares that parents are, “by the law of nature, under an obligation to preserve, nourish and educate” their children.13 Since government is instituted to enforce the laws of nature, Locke states that government should make laws that enforce “the security of the marriage bed.’’14 What””