A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
JOHN CALVINThe grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
More John Calvin Quotes
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It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.
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We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
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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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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
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I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
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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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
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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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Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.
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Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
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Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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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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The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
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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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If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
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No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
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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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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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Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.
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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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The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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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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Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
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