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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.

John Calvin

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.
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Belief Empty Faith God Hands Religious
All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
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Born God Knowledge Obiedience True
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
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Faith Ourselves Spiritual
A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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Fools Himself Idiot Men
A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
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Believe Faith Perfection
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
Satan is an astute theologian.
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The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.
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Himself Knowledge Learning Life Reading Scripture Truth
The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.
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Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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Destroy Powerful Save
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
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Inspirational Joy Man Nature Spiritual World
Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
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Buy Peace Price Sacrifice 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
The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.
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Faith Fire Ourselves Quality
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
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Confidence Inspirational Ourselves Worst
Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
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Perseverance Prayer Result Wasted

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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