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The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.

John Calvin

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
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
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Faith Ourselves Spiritual
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
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Cruel God Judgement Nation Rule
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
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
It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.
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Blessing God Responsibility
Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God’s saving grace in Christ Jesus.
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God Goodness Grace Heart Joy
Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
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Buy Peace Price Sacrifice Truth
There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
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Beginning Deep God Religious Spiritual Wisdom
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
Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.
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God Himself Sleep Time Work
Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
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Exercise Faith Prayer
The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.
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Faith Fire Ourselves Quality
Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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Destroy Powerful Save
The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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Book Life Religious Tongue Value
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.
JOHN CALVIN

Fear God Heart Himself Men Mercy Sincere Understand Worship

The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.

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