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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

John Calvin

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.
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Food Laughter Music Satisfaction Wine
The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.
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Act Effort God Goodness Willing
Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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Chance Destiny Fate Human Suffering
Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
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Destruction Men Pride
There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
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Expectation Faith God Himself Place Promise
For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
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Fools Gift God Himself Place Stupidity Worship
The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
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Chance God Grace Men Spirit Taste
Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success.
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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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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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Beginning Faith Humility Intelligence True
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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Evil Inspirational Miracle Religious Remember
In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
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Deep Discover God Oneself Religious
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Deep Knowledge True Wisdom Yourself
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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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

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