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Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.

John Calvin

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
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
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Forever Glory God Justice Mercy Punishment Race Sin
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
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Destiny Determination Forever God Himself Men
Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
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Perseverance Prayer Result Wasted
There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
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Expectation Faith God Himself Place Promise
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
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Cruel God Judgement Nation Rule
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
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Faith Ourselves Spiritual
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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Death Exception God Suffering
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
All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
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Born God Knowledge Obiedience True
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
The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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Excellence Live Purity Religious
Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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Chance Destiny Fate Human Suffering
We cannot rely on God’s promises without obeying his commandments.
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God Promise Religious Rule
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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God Happiness Men Seek

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