True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
JOHN CALVIN
JOHN CALVIN
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The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
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 By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man
John CalvinJohn Calvin Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
John CalvinJohn Calvin We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.
John CalvinJohn Calvin Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
John CalvinJohn Calvin The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
John CalvinJohn Calvin We cannot rely on God’s promises without obeying his commandments.
John CalvinJohn Calvin We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.
John CalvinJohn Calvin When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.
John CalvinJohn Calvin