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All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

John Calvin

If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
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God Knowledge Learning Planning Wisdom
Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
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Buy Peace Price Sacrifice Truth
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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Existence God Mistake Purity See Word
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
Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
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Deep Faith Forever Philosophy Religious See
If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.
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Break Fall Himself Hurt Prayer
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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Discover Joy Suffering Yourself
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
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
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Dog God Myself Silence Truth
When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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Book God Religious Talk
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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Destiny Determination Forever God Himself Men
The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
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Destruction Men Pride
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
The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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Excellence Live Purity Religious
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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God Happiness Men Seek
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

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