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

John Calvin

The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it.. We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.
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Beyond God Greatness Human Understand
Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.
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Belief Empty Faith God Hands Religious
The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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Book Life Religious Tongue Value
Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
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Perseverance Prayer Result Wasted
We cannot rely on God’s promises without obeying his commandments.
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God Promise Religious Rule
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
Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
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Buy Peace Price Sacrifice Truth
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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Act Believe Book Faith Fools God Religious Word
Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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Destroy Powerful Save
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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Beginning Faith Humility Intelligence True
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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Forever Glory God Justice Mercy Punishment Race Sin
There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
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Beginning Deep God Religious Spiritual Wisdom
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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Food Laughter Music Satisfaction Wine
Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
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Enjoyment Forever Glory Goal Ourselves
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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God Happiness Men Seek
Man’s mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
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Believe God Idol Men Mindset

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

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