All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
JOHN CALVINHow do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.
More John Calvin Quotes
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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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When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
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How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.
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We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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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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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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It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
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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 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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When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
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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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Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
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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.
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