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

John Calvin

There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
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Expectation Faith God Himself Place Promise
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
We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
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Build Ourselves Visible
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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Discover Joy Suffering Yourself
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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Himself Knowledge Learning Life Reading Scripture Truth
Unless God’s Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.
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Darkness God Men Misery Way
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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Beginning Faith Humility Intelligence True
A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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Fools Himself Idiot Men
You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.
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Blessing Enjoyment Imagination Powerful Rule
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Deep Knowledge True Wisdom Yourself
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
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Confidence Inspirational Ourselves Worst
Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
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Perseverance Prayer Result Wasted
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
In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
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Deep Discover God Oneself Religious
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

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