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The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

John Calvin

The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.
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Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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Chance Destiny Fate Human Suffering
There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
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The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.
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Faith Fire Ourselves Quality
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
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Faith Ourselves Spiritual
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Deep Knowledge True Wisdom Yourself
There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
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Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
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Dangerous Eyes Prosperity
Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
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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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A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
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There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception.
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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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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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The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
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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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The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

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