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We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

John Calvin

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
JOHN CALVIN

God Happiness Men Seek
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.
JOHN CALVIN

Gift God Himself Religious
We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
JOHN CALVIN

Character Clothes God Ourselves Religious Right
A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.
JOHN CALVIN

Faith God Justice Men Right Sin Work
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
JOHN CALVIN

Confidence Inspirational Ourselves Worst
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
JOHN CALVIN

Destiny Determination Forever God Himself Men
Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
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Appearance God Human Love Person
The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.
JOHN CALVIN

Faith Fire Ourselves Quality
The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.
JOHN CALVIN

Animal Book Oneself Path Religious Voice
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.
JOHN CALVIN

Freedom Grace Heart Law Ourselves Spirit
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
JOHN CALVIN

Cruel God Judgement Nation Rule
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.
JOHN CALVIN

Book Learning Religious Satisfaction Shame True Understand
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.
JOHN CALVIN

Blessing Enjoyment Imagination Powerful Rule
Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
JOHN CALVIN

Exercise Faith Prayer
Where God’s Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
JOHN CALVIN

God Humility Men Pride Spirit
It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
JOHN CALVIN

Alone Faith Justice Religious Wisdom

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