You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
JOHN CALVIN
JOHN CALVIN
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The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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John CalvinJohn Calvin When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
John CalvinJohn Calvin When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
John CalvinJohn Calvin Satan is an astute theologian.
John CalvinJohn Calvin How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.
John CalvinJohn Calvin Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
John CalvinJohn Calvin Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.
John CalvinJohn Calvin No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
John CalvinJohn Calvin A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
John CalvinJohn Calvin Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.
John CalvinJohn Calvin The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
John CalvinJohn Calvin The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.
John CalvinJohn Calvin We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
John CalvinJohn Calvin I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
John CalvinJohn Calvin Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve.
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