John Calvin Quotes

The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.

John Calvin

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• Now suddenly you got members of your White House team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Team
  • Here
  • Members

• Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.

  

  Pablo Escobar
  • Life
  • Good
  • Life is

• The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return.

  

  Sadhu Sundar Singh
  • True
  • Christian
  • Cutting

• Love, too, has to be learned.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Learned

• You cannot treat with all the world at once.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • World
  • Treat

• What a difficult thing it is to ask someone's advice on a matter without coloring his judgment by the way in which we present our problem.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Problem
  • Advice
  • Judgment

• Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.

  

  William Blake
  • Way
  • Beauty
  • Exuberance

• The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Sadness
  • Melancholy
  • Brown

• Great emotional singing isn't a destination, it's a journey, one to be taken time and again to different places with different moods and different audiences.

  

  Deke Sharon Tufts Beelzebubs
  • Singing
  • Journey
  • Destination

• People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it for you.

  

  Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
  • Lose
  • Prove
  • Wars

• You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.

  

  Paul Keating
  • World
  • Government
  • Meetings

• War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither can the evil of men's thoughts be driven out by blows. If I go to my neighbor's house, and break her furniture, and smash her pictures, and bind her children captive, it does not prove that I am fitter to live than she - yet according to ethics of nations it does. I have conquered her and she must pay me for my trouble; and her house and all that is left in it belongs to my heirs and successors, forever. That is war!

  

  Nellie McClung
  • Children
  • Trouble
  • Neighbor

• Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Leader
  • Century
  • Middle

• Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Relaxed
  • Abandoned
  • Effortless

• The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.

  

  John Calvin
  • Merit
  • Name Of Christ