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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.

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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We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
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No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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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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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.
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Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
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Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
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We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
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There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
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Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.
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Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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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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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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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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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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