Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
JOHN CALVIN
JOHN CALVIN
John Calvin on perfection
John Calvin92 quotes“Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.”
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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.
John CalvinJohn Calvin 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.
John CalvinJohn Calvin True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
John CalvinJohn Calvin 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.
John CalvinJohn Calvin There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
John CalvinJohn Calvin Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
John CalvinJohn Calvin 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.
John CalvinJohn Calvin The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
John CalvinJohn Calvin Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
John CalvinJohn Calvin 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.
John CalvinJohn Calvin Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
John CalvinJohn Calvin 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.
John CalvinJohn Calvin There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception.
John CalvinJohn Calvin 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.
John CalvinJohn Calvin In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
John CalvinJohn Calvin 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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