Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
JOHN CALVINPeace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
More John Calvin Quotes
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My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
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It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.
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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.
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Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
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Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
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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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I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
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Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.
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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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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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When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
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The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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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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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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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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