John Calvin Quotes

Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.

John Calvin

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• Glory
• God's Grace
• Kingdom Of God

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• I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Money
  • Food
  • Know

• I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Name

• I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Power
  • Future
  • Earth

• Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Long
  • School
  • Friends

• It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Up
  • Education

• You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Life
  • Expectations

• I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Never
  • Felt
  • Worse

• We're going to raise a lot of money to hopefully help rebuild some schools in the areas that have been devastated.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Money
  • Help
  • Schools

• The goal of faithfulness is not that we will do work for God, but that He will be free to do His work through us. God calls us to His service and places tremendous responsibilities on us. He expects no complaining on our part and offers no explanation on His part. God wants to use us as He used His own Son.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • Free

• We must keep ourselves in touch, not with theories, but with people. We must never get out of touch with them if we are going to use the Word of God skillfully amongst them and if the Holy Spirit is to apply the Word of God through us.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • God
  • Word Of God

• Trust yourself in God's hands. Maintain your relationship to Jesus Christ by the patience of faith. 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.'

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Faith
  • Relationship

• We did every scene together, every day for four months, and it could have been a disaster, if we didn't get on, but we clicked straight away. Elijah Wood is just the nicest guy.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Together
  • Guy
  • Scene

• I love the Bowl system. I've always been a proponent of the Bowl system. I think it's been great for college football, for this level.

  

  Dabo Swinney
  • Great
  • College
  • Football

• And with this show we're trying to be a little sillier. We can do a piece like one we wrote the other day called "Ghost Busters Busters". Where would never do that in a million years on Mr. Show, but somehow on this show it's silly and stupid and a little more disposable, so we can do something like that.

  

  B. J. Porter
  • Trying
  • Years
  • Stupid

• The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over this period.

  

  Arthur Laffer
  • Growth
  • Period
  • Income Tax

• Nothing like a lot of exercise to make you realize you'd rather be lazy and dead sooner.

  

  R. K. Milholland
  • Exercise
  • Realizing
  • Lazy

• If employees feel you don't trust them to do their jobs correctly and well, they'll be reluctant to do much without your approval. On the other hand, when they feel trusted, that you believe they'll do the right things well, they'll naturally want to do things well and be deserving of your trust.

  

  Mac Anderson
  • Believe
  • Hand
  • Trust

• There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Universe
  • Christ
  • Desperately

• It is sure that those are most desirous of honour or glory who cry out loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Glory
  • Sure
  • Honour

• Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Audience
  • Glory
  • Pushing

• He who receives Communion is made holy and Divinized in soul and body in the same way that water, set over a fire, becomes boiling... Communion works like yeast that has been mixed into dough so that it leavens the whole mass; ...Just as by melting two candles together you get one piece of wax, so, I think, one who receives the Flesh and Blood of Jesus is fused together with Him by this Communion, and the soul finds that he is in Christ and Christ is in him

  

  Cyril of Alexandria
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Soul

• Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.

  

  John Calvin
  • Christ
  • Glory
  • God's Grace