John Calvin Quotes
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Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve.
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The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.
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We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
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We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.
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Their the Jews rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.
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I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
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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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If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and that it is impossible for any man to obtain even the minutest portion of right and sound doctrine without being a disciple of Scripture.
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There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
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When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
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Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.
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The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.
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Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
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Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.
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We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
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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.
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I cannot think such language either right, or becoming, or suitable. ... To call the Virgin Mary the mother of God can only serve to confirm the ignorant in their superstitions.
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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
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Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
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Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
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It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.
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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.