John Calvin Quotes
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Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
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Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
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Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we are.
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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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If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
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Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.
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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.
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If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.
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When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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Angels transcend every religion, every philosophy, every creed. In fact Angels have no religion as we know it... Their existence precedes every religious system that has ever existed on Earth.
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We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.
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Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.
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We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
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It is a very important consideration that we are consecrated and dedicated to God; it means that we may think, speak, meditate, or do anything only with a view to his glory.
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The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.
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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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In our good works nothing is our own.
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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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Faith is not a distant view, but a warm embrace of Christ.
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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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It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.
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Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
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Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel assigned him for his defence, I cannot venture certainly to affirm... not one angel only has the care of every one of us, but that they all with one consent watch for our salvation.