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Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

John 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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Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.
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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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Excellence Live Purity Religious
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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Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
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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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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.
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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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We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.
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Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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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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Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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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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