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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

Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.
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God Himself Sleep Time Work
The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
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Destruction Men Pride
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
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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Food Laughter Music Satisfaction Wine
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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Dog God Myself Silence Truth
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
If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.
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Break Fall Himself Hurt Prayer
Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
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Grace Human Liberty
Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
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Dangerous Eyes Prosperity
Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.
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Life Ourselves Purity Spirit True
It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
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Alone Faith Justice Religious Wisdom
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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God Happiness Men Seek
Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
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Exercise Faith Prayer
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
A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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Fools Himself Idiot Men

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