John Calvin Quotes
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The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.
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Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God.
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The marks of Jesus are imprisonment, chains, scourgings, blows and stoning in bearing testimony to the Gospel. Galatians 6:17 - 17 Finally, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.
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I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
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There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.
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To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts.
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Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace.
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The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory.
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Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law.
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Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.
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We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.
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It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.
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How can it be said that the weakness of the human will is aided so as to enable it to aspire effectually to the choice of good, when the fact is, that it must be wholly transformed and renewed?
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If God contains the fullness of all good things in Himself like an inexhaustible fountain, nothing beyond Him is to be sought by those who strike after the highest good and all the elements of happiness.
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No one has rightly denied himself unless he has wholly resigned himself to the Lord and is willing to leave every detail to his good pleasure. If we put ourselves in such a frame of mind, then, whatever may happen to us, we shall never feel miserable or accuse God falsely because of our lot.
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There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
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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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The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.
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No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.
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The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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When we know God to be our Father, should we not desire that he be known as such by all? And if we do not have this passion, that all creatures do him homage, is it not a sign that his glory means little to us?
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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.