John Calvin Quotes
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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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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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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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Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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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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Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
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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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We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.
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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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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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We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.
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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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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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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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Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.
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If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
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Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.
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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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This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils.
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If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.
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Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.
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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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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.