Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
JOHN CALVINHow do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.
More John Calvin Quotes
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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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A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
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We cannot rely on God’s promises without obeying his commandments.
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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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If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
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The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
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The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
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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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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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For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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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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Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.
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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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Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success.
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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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Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.
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The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.
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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
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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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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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It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
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Where God’s Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
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