John Calvin Quotes
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Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.
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The Human heart is an idol factory.
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Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
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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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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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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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Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.
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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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In our good works nothing is 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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Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.
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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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Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.
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Faith is not a distant view, but a warm embrace of Christ.
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It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ.
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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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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.
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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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We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.
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We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.
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It is entirely the work of grace and a benefit conferred by it that our heart is changed from a stony one to one of flesh, that our will is made new, and that we, created anew in heart and mind, at length will what we ought to will.
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We must not think that God takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.
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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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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.