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It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.

John Calvin

Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
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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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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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But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
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Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
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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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In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
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The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.
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When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
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A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Satan is an astute theologian.
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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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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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It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.

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