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Where God’s Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.

John Calvin

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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Freedom Grace Heart Law Ourselves Spirit
Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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Destroy Powerful Save
Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
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Deep Faith Forever Philosophy Religious See
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
Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
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Fade Fall God Knowledge Taste
Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
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Perseverance Prayer Result Wasted
Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
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Fear God Heart Himself Men Mercy Sincere Understand Worship
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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God Happiness Men Seek
A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.
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Faith God Justice Men Right Sin Work
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
The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.
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Endurance Enjoyment Evil Luxury Preparation Yourself
The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
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Humble Progress Sincere Spiritual
It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.
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Blessing God Responsibility
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
We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
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Build Ourselves Visible
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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Beginning Faith Humility Intelligence True

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