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.
JOHN CALVINWe must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
More John Calvin Quotes
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It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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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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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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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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For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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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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A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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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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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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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
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Satan is an astute theologian.
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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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