Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
JOHN CALVINThere is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
More John Calvin Quotes
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All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
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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 one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
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There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
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Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.
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Prayer doesn’t change things – God changes things in answer to prayer.
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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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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 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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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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A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
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Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
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Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
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Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
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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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There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
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We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.
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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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When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.
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It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
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No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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