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.
JOHN CALVINWhen God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
More John Calvin Quotes
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Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God’s saving grace in Christ Jesus.
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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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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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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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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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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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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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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.
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Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
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I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
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It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
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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 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.
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Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
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We cannot rely on God’s promises without obeying his commandments.
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But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
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The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.
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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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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
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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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No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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