John Calvin Quotes

Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.

John Calvin

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• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
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• We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Food
  • Environment
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• Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Man
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• It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

  

  Aaron Stanford
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• I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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• I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

  

  Fiona Shaw
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• I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.

  

  Abby Wambach
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• The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

  

  Patrick Swayze
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• I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Together
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• I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is L.A., obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Country
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• My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • She
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• People criticize you for trying new things. I think, 'I'm new! I'm 22!' I don't know exactly what my sound is or what I want my album to sound like, so I'm not releasing it yet. While I'm experimenting, I'll let you in on the journey, and you can hear it for free.

  

  Iggy Azalea
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• I got space from Travis Air Force Base, went back to the Philippine Islands and made it a point to meet the only American casting director in the Philippines. I was off and running.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • American
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• I love my fashion, so I gotta have my outfits.

  

  Zendaya
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• I like playing off strong actors, whether it's Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I'm a hopeless romantic, so I'm fascinated by relationships.

  

  Lara Pulver
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• Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.

  

  Florence Nightingale
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• Ball teams do not always run true to form in a short series. In a season's campaign, class will tell; the best team will invariably win, unless disaster overtakes it. In a short series, some freak situation, same unusual play, may prove to be the turning point.

  

  Billy Evans
  • May
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  • Team

• When you're working with a script and you have three pages for that day, you have to shoot that. It can become sort of like a prison, because by the time you've shot what you need to shoot, you don't really have time to think or shoot anything else.

  

  Michael Winterbottom
  • Thinking
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• My God, Donald Trump is unfit! He's ill-tempered, he's unsuited, he is not qualified, he's unsuited to be president.

  

  Barack Obama
  • God
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• Thanks to music I have found a deeper connection to an otherwise elusive God. Thru music I get to commune directly, and daily. On a side note to readers, any service or craft you give your heart to will give you the same effect. Don't be afraid to work less and play more! We are human. We didn't come here to hold down a dayjob. We came here to live and learn!

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Work
  • Music
  • God

• The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face.

  

  Jeremy Hardy
  • Past
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• Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Spirit
  • Flesh