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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

John Calvin

All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
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Born God Knowledge Obiedience True
Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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Chance Destiny Fate Human Suffering
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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God Happiness Men Seek
When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
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Change Design Forgiveness Heart Himself Spirit
The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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Book Life Religious Tongue Value
Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
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Appearance God Human Love Person
Prayer doesn’t change things – God changes things in answer to prayer.
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Change Faith God Prayer Religious
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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Believe Book Bright Light Men Religious Sun Way
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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God Himself Need Ourselves Prayer Right Thinking
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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Desire Growth Hate Imagination Man Ourselves
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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Evil Inspirational Miracle Religious Remember
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Deep Knowledge True Wisdom Yourself
Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
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Grace Human Liberty
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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Act Effort God Goodness Willing
No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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Extraordinary God Men Spirit
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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Evil God Himself Kind Preparation Unique Worth

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