True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
JOHN CALVINSatan is an astute theologian.
More John Calvin Quotes
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Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
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We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
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My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
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All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
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Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take the time to enjoy where we are.
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Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.
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The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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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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Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
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The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
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God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.
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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
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