For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
JOHN CALVINTo 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.
More John Calvin Quotes
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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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Satan is an astute theologian.
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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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We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
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There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
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Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
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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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Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
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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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No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
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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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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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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 grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
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