You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
JOHN CALVINA 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.
More John Calvin Quotes
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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
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When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
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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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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
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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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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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Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
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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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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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How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.
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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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