John Calvin Quotes
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Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.
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Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.
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The highest honor in the church is not government but service.
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Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.
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When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?
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The whole life of Christians ought to be an exercise of piety, since they are called to sanctification. It is the office of the law to remind them of their duty and thereby to excite them to the pursuit of holiness and integrity. But when their consciences are solicitous how God may be propitiated, what answer they shall make, and on what they shall rest their confidence, if called to his tribunal, there must then be no consideration of the requisitions of the law, but Christ alone must be proposed for righteousness, who exceeds all the perfection of the law.
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Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction.
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If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
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Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people.
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To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.
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The Human heart is an idol factory.
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... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.
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No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; nay, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone.
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He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.
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Because I know that I am not my own master, I offer my heart as a true sacrifice to the Lord.
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There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.
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Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant children, except because it so seemed good to God? A decree horrible, I confess, and yet true.
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Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.
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Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
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This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils.
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Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
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If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.