It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.
JOHN CALVIN
We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
More John Calvin Quotes
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It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.
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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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Satan is an astute theologian.
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It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
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Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
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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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In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
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When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.
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Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
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The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it.. We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.
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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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The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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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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But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
JOHN CALVIN