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.
JOHN CALVIN
The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
More John Calvin Quotes
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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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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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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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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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All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
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Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
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We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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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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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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How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.
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When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Prayer doesn’t change things – God changes things in answer to prayer.
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Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
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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.
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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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