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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 Calvin

Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.
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God Himself Sleep Time Work
How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.
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Believe Creation Election God Himself World
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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Life Ourselves Purity Spirit True
Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.
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Belief Empty Faith God Hands Religious
Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
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Alone Beyond Perfection Satisfaction
Where God’s Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
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God Humility Men Pride Spirit
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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Believe God Idol Men Mindset
The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.
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Faith Fire Ourselves Quality
If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.
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Break Fall Himself Hurt Prayer
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
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Faith Ourselves Spiritual
When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.
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Action Belief Fly Inspirational Learning Myself
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.
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Death Exception God Suffering
Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
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Exercise Faith Prayer
Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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Destroy Powerful Save
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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Forever Glory God Justice Mercy Punishment Race Sin
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Deep Knowledge True Wisdom Yourself

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.

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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.

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