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.
JOHN CALVINSometimes 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.
More John Calvin Quotes
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The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.
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We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.
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Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
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I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
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Prayer doesn’t change things – God changes things in answer to prayer.
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How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.
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When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
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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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Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
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Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
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The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
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A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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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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No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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