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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

John Calvin

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Deep Knowledge True Wisdom Yourself
Where God’s Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
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Dangerous Eyes Prosperity
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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The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
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The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.
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Animal Book Oneself Path Religious Voice
When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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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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Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.
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Gift God Himself Religious
Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
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Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
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In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
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Deep Discover God Oneself Religious
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
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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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Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

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