John Calvin Quotes

First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign ourselves and all that we have to the will of God, and at the same time we should surrender our affections to him as our Conqueror and Overlord.

John Calvin

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• Surrender
• Will Of God
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• I worry about children not having a sense of any direct connection to the past.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Children
  • Past
  • Worry

• Come on, come onDon't leave me like this.I thought I had you figured out.Something's gone terribly wrong,You're all I wanted.Come on, come onDon't leave me like this.I thought I had you figured out.Can't breathe whenever your gone,Can't turn backNow I'm haunted.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Breathe

• Certainly nobody under 21 should have an AR-15.

  

  Pat Roberts

• The coalition is a model that has no place in a presidential regime such as in Mexico. It fits in parliamentary models, but Mexico has a presidential regime.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Model
  • Presidential

• When I got pregnant, I started singing again. It was my saving grace. I literally mean having this amazing human life, and our relationship in the sense of mother and child, redeemed my soul.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Soul

• Conflict, when mismanaged, destroys.

  

  Benjamin Watson

• You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

  

  Maxwell Maltz

• We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.

  

  John Shelton Reed
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• Fast offerings are used for one purpose only: to bless the lives of those in need.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • Purpose

• When I got famous, all of a sudden guys wouldn't look at me. Period. So I felt a little sad, a little frustrated. Like, What's going on here? I've never been prettier in my life and I'm so cool and successful.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Life
  • Cool
  • Period

• Your mom's in our business...she's in our business...

  

  Kevin Madison
  • She
  • Business
  • Girl

• It takes power for the man of God in the pulpit to speak plainly about particular sins before the faces of those who are living in them; and still more power to do it with the rare tactfulness and tenderness of the Galilean preacher.

  

  S. D Gordon
  • God
  • Men
  • Power

• Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Lord
  • Pray
  • Appointment

• The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Air

• A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Scripture
  • Pope
  • Armed

• The coffee shop played a big role in Vienna of 1900. Rents were sky high, housing was difficult to come by, your apartment probably wasn't heated, and so you went to the coffee shop. You went to the coffee shop because it was warm, because it was great Viennese coffee, and you went for the conversation and the company.

  

  Eric Weiner
  • Difficult
  • Conversation
  • Vienna

• First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign ourselves and all that we have to the will of God, and at the same time we should surrender our affections to him as our Conqueror and Overlord.

  

  John Calvin
  • Scripture
  • Surrender
  • Will Of God