John Calvin Quotes
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When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.
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We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.
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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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Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.
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Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
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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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... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.
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Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.
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We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.
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Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.
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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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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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Now the great thing is this: we are consecrated and dedicated to God in order that we may thereafter think, speak, meditate, and do, nothing except to his glory. For a sacred thing may not be applied to profane uses without marked injury to him.
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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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Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
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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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If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.
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Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.
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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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Pagan philosophers set up reason as the sole guide of life, of wisdom and conduct; but Christian philosophy demands of us that we surrender our reason to the Holy Spirit; and this means that we no longer live for ourselves, but that Christ lives and reigns within us (Rom 12:1; Eph 4:23; Gal 2:20).
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Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.
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Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love 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.
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We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give and devote ourselves to righteousness, we not only revolt from our Creator with wicked perfidy, but we also abjure our Savior Himself.