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Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.

John Calvin

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
A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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Fools Himself Idiot Men
Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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Chance Destiny Fate Human Suffering
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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Act Believe Book Faith Fools God Religious Word
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
My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
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Heart Myself Yourself
The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
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Destruction Men Pride
Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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Destroy Powerful Save
When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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Book God Religious Talk
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
I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
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Give Up God Myself
Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
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Perseverance Prayer Result Wasted
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
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Dog God Myself Silence Truth
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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Evil God Himself Kind Preparation Unique Worth
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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Freedom Grace Heart Law Ourselves Spirit
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
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Forever Glory God Justice Mercy Punishment Race Sin

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