Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
JOHN CALVINThe 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.
More John Calvin Quotes
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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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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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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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Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God’s saving grace in Christ Jesus.
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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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The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
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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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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
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The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.
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Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.
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Prayer doesn’t change things – God changes things in answer to prayer.
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