Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
JOHN CALVINLet our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
More John Calvin Quotes
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When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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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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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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Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
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But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
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Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
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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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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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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
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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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My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
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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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There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
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