More from John Calvin
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
John CalvinJohn Calvin True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
John CalvinJohn Calvin 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.
John CalvinJohn Calvin 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.
John CalvinJohn Calvin True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
John CalvinJohn Calvin 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.
John CalvinJohn Calvin There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
John CalvinJohn Calvin Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
John CalvinJohn Calvin The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it.. We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.
John CalvinJohn Calvin Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
John CalvinJohn Calvin 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.
John CalvinJohn Calvin Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
John CalvinJohn Calvin 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.
John CalvinJohn Calvin There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception.
John CalvinJohn Calvin You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.
John CalvinJohn Calvin In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
John CalvinJohn Calvin
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They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
More on chance
If changes are unavoidable, nothing is permanent. If nothing is permanent, everything is temporary.
Anand ThakurAnand Thakur So take a chance and never look back.
Katy PerryKaty Perry So take a chance and don’t ever look back.
Katy PerryKaty Perry No matter how many tears are running down her face, They’ll never stand a chance to the fire burning in her heart.
CindyCindy Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of suffering people.
Marcus GarveyMarcus Garvey You are brave for giving love a second chance even after it caused you so much pain the first time.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis Each sunrise is a new chance to make your life the one you always dream of.
Sarah ShawkatSarah Shawkat The chance to see you again is 1 in 8 billion but so was the first time.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan