John Calvin Quotes
Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
Quotes to Explore
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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This is a medical service. It always was.
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If a woman isn't being hazed, she's not being tested; therefore, she is not being trusted.
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If the law tries to legislate our 'yeses' and 'noes' it will produce 'the straitjacket generation' – a generation afraid to flirt, fearful of finding its love notes in a court suit. Date rape legislation will force suitors and courting to give way to courts and suing.
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One of the key ingredients of coexistence and successful cooperation is trust.
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I wanna be your happiness.I wanna be your common sense pain.
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If I'm feeling like rock, we'll do some of that, and if I'm feeling some other way, we might do some of that. So, that's typically how I record and write and play music and anything else.
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We must organize. We must protest. We must cry out in a loud voice that America needs a raise. We must keep working until workers in this country don't have to struggle to make ends meet.
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With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.
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I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.
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I always feel kind of awkward when I look at pictures of myself. Watching videos of myself is really uncomfortable.
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I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.
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One loss is good for the soul, Too many losses is not good for the coach.
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If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.
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Many Americans don't mourn in public anymore - we don't wear black, we don't beat our chests and wail.
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The fundamental deception of Satan is the lie that obedience can never bring happiness.
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Unbelief is judged by Jesus not as an intellectual error but as a hostile act of prejudice against God himself.
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If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.
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I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose.
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'T is elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand,-Scripture authentic! uncorrupt by man.
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It is important to learn to understand in a historical text, a text from the past, the living Word of God, that is, to enter into prayer and thus read Sacred Scripture as a conversation with God.
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Notwithstanding my present incompetency, I am beginning to translate the New Testament, being extremely anxious to get some parts of Scripture, at least, into an intelligible shape, if for no other purpose than to read, as occasion offers, to the Burmans I meet with.
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When I read the statements of Christ, there seems to be this urgency and intensity. I guess that's what I get out of it when I read the tone of the Scriptures, which is very different from the tone of our culture.
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Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
