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I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

John Calvin

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
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
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
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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Evil Inspirational Miracle Religious Remember
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.
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Animal Book Oneself Path Religious Voice
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
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
Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
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Fear God Heart Himself Men Mercy Sincere Understand Worship
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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Discover Joy Suffering Yourself
I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
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Give Up God Myself
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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God Happiness Men Seek
Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
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Alone Beyond Perfection Satisfaction
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
Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
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Buy Peace Price Sacrifice Truth
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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Beginning Faith Humility Intelligence True
The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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Excellence Live Purity Religious

I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

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