John Calvin Quotes
It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.
Quotes to Explore
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'
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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
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No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.
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The prophets, who were very many, proclaim and declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration of the one God, they predicted things to come, with agreeing and harmonious voice.
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Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
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God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
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God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.
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I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.
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Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.
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He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
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You have to make time and tend to things that are important in your life so you can live the life of blessing God has promised you!
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To pass from estrangement from God to be a son of God is the basic fact of conversion. That altered relationship with God gives you an altered relationship with yourself, with your brother man, with nature, with the universe.
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I believe in the freedom of God's sons and daughters.
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It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form. That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real. Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
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He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.
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You cannot live in the best city in the world and have people living on the streets.
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What sort of Europe do we want to have? Parallel societies? Muslim communities living together with the Christian community?
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The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics.
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It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.
