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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.

John Calvin

Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
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Appearance God Human Love Person
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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God Happiness Men Seek
If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
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God Knowledge Learning Planning Wisdom
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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Evil God Himself Kind Preparation Unique Worth
The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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Excellence Live Purity Religious
We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
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Build Ourselves Visible
The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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Book Life Religious Tongue Value
No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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Extraordinary God Men Spirit
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
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Faith Ourselves Spiritual
Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
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Perseverance Prayer Result Wasted
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
Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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Chance Destiny Fate Human Suffering
Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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Destroy Powerful Save
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
Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.
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Gift God Himself Religious
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
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Inspirational Joy Man Nature Spiritual World
All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
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Born God Knowledge Obiedience True
Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
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Deep Faith Forever Philosophy Religious See
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.
JOHN CALVIN

Act Effort God Goodness Willing
When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.
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Action Belief Fly Inspirational Learning Myself
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
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
A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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Fools Himself Idiot Men
Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success.
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Adversity Dangerous Doubt Men Praise Prosperity Success
Unless God’s Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.
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Darkness God Men Misery Way
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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Discover Joy Suffering Yourself
We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.
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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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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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