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We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.

John Calvin

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.
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When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
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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.
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We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.
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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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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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Satan is an astute theologian.
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A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.
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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
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In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
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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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Man’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.
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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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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.
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The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
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Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
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