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.
JOHN CALVINTrue wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
More John Calvin Quotes
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Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
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The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.
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There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
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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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In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
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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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We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
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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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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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It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.
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Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
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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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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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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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