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I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

John Calvin

If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.
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Break Fall Himself Hurt Prayer
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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Experience Joy Meditation Recognition Sorrow Suffering
Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.
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Life Ourselves Purity Spirit True
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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Busy Enjoyment Present Quick Time
A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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Fools Himself Idiot Men
The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.
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Faith Fire Ourselves Quality
Prayer doesn’t change things – God changes things in answer to prayer.
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Change Faith God Prayer Religious
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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God Happiness Men Seek
The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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Book Life Religious Tongue Value
Unless God’s Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.
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Darkness God Men Misery Way
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
Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
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Alone Beyond Perfection Satisfaction
The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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Excellence Live Purity Religious
Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
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Desire Growth Hate Imagination Man Ourselves
The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.
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Animal Book Oneself Path Religious Voice
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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Discover Joy Suffering Yourself

I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

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