John Calvin Quotes

The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.

John Calvin

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• We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.

  

  Victoria Osteen
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• Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

  

  J. G. Stedman
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• Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.

  

  Dakota Goyo
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• Even Apple, notorious for keeping a tight grip on its products, allows fierce competitors like Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Microsoft to offer their apps on its phones and tablets.

  

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• If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
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• I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.

  

  Mal Peet
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• If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
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• I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • World
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• Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Home
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• I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

  

  P. Chidambaram
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• Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.

  

  Yandel Wisin & Yandel
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• The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn't be accepted by the elite.

  

  Wagner Moura
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• We are not smart enough to leave things to the market.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
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• I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• If religion were the only durable foundation for morality you would suspect atheists to be really badly behaved. You would go to a group like the National Academy of Sciences. These are the most elite scientists, 93 percent of whom reject the idea of God. You would expect these guys to be raping and killing and stealing with abandon.

  

  Sam Harris
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• We can't afford to cede our leadership in developing and deploying the advanced, clean fuels of the future that will grow our economy, lower our energy bills, reduce pollution, and protect the health of our families and communities. And America's farmers and rural communities have to be at the heart of this effort.

  

  Hillary Clinton
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• These acts of terrorism are being committed by American citizens in this particular instance at a Planned Parenthood site, certain with a political agenda, fueled by the extremist rhetoric that we`ve seen from some on the hill and from people all across the country as it relates to a woman`s right to choose.

  

  Hakeem Jeffries
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• Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.

  

  Frances Beinecke
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• I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.

  

  Shania Twain
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• The Second Way in which a wife can be separated from her husband, while he continues to be faithful to his God and his priesthood, I have not revealed, except to a few persons in this Church; and a few have received it from Joseph the prophet as well as myself. If a woman can find a man holding the keys of the priesthood with higher power and authority than her husband, and he is disposed to take her he can do so, otherwise she has got to remain where she is... there is no need for a bill of divorcement... To recapitulate.

  

  Brigham Young
  • God
  • Church
  • Priesthood

• The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.

  

  John Calvin
  • Church
  • Practice
  • Immersion