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 CALVINMan’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.
More John Calvin Quotes
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The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
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We cannot rely on God’s promises without obeying his commandments.
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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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Where God’s Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
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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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Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
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The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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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.
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Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
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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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When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.
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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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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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