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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.

John Calvin

Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
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Book Darkness God Religious View
Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
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Alone Beyond Perfection Satisfaction
I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
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Give Up God Myself
Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
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Buy Peace Price Sacrifice Truth
Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
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Perseverance Prayer Result Wasted
All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
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Born God Knowledge Obiedience True
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
Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
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Appearance God Human Love Person
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
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Deep Knowledge True Wisdom Yourself
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
A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
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Believe Faith Perfection
Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take the time to enjoy where we are.
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Busy Enjoyment Present Quick Time
Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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Destroy Powerful Save
We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God’s benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.
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Experience Joy Meditation Recognition Sorrow Suffering

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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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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