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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

No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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Extraordinary God Men Spirit
The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
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Destruction Men Pride
My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
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Heart Myself Yourself
The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.
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Endurance Enjoyment Evil Luxury Preparation Yourself
Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
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Deep Faith Forever Philosophy Religious See
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Deep Knowledge True Wisdom Yourself
The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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Book Life Religious Tongue Value
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
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
All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
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Born God Knowledge Obiedience True
Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
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Fade Fall God Knowledge Taste
I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
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Give Up God Myself
When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
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Change Design Forgiveness Heart Himself Spirit
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.
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Faith God Justice Men Right Sin Work
God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.
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Action Election God Spirit Word Work

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