When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
JOHN CALVINHuman will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
More John Calvin Quotes
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When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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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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The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
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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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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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The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
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Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
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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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In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
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By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man
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Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
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Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
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We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
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