True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
JOHN CALVINWe shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
More John Calvin Quotes
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You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.
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The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
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How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.
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Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
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In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
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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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By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man
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The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
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Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
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No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
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God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.
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To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts.
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It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
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When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
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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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Satan is an astute theologian.
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The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
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The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
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Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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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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We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.
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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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All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
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