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Where God’s Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.

John Calvin

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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Chance Destiny Fate Human Suffering
Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.
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Gift God Himself Religious
Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
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Deep Faith Forever Philosophy Religious See
When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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Book God Religious Talk
The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.
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Endurance Enjoyment Evil Luxury Preparation Yourself
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
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Faith Ourselves Spiritual
My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
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Heart Myself Yourself
The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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Excellence Live Purity Religious
A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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Fools Himself Idiot Men
The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it.. We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.
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Beyond God Greatness Human Understand
The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.
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Himself Knowledge Learning Life Reading Scripture Truth
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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Evil Inspirational Miracle Religious Remember
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
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Cruel God Judgement Nation Rule
Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
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Fade Fall God Knowledge Taste
Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.
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Belief Empty Faith God Hands Religious
A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.
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Faith God Justice Men Right Sin Work

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