We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
JOHN CALVINThe 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.
More John Calvin Quotes
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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
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Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
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Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
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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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The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
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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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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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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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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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Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
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Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
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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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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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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.
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