Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.
JOHN CALVINNo man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
More John Calvin Quotes
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The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.
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We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.
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Prayer doesn’t change things – God changes things in answer to prayer.
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God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.
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I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
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No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
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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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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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We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God’s benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.
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There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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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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