When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
JOHN CALVINHuman will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
More John Calvin Quotes
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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception.
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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 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 shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
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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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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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Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
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We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.
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We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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Man’s mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
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Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
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The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
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The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
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