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Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.

John Calvin

We cannot rely on God’s promises without obeying his commandments.
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God Promise Religious Rule
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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God Happiness Men Seek
Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
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Appearance God Human Love Person
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
The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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Book Life Religious Tongue Value
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
If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
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God Knowledge Learning Planning Wisdom
Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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Destroy Powerful Save
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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Existence God Mistake Purity See Word
Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
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Book Darkness God Religious View
Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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Chance Destiny Fate Human Suffering
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
We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
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Character Clothes God Ourselves Religious Right
The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
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Destruction Men Pride
In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
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Deep Discover God Oneself Religious
Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
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Perseverance Prayer Result Wasted

Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.

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