Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
JOHN CALVINWhen the Bible speaks, God speaks.
More John Calvin Quotes
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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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Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God’s saving grace in Christ Jesus.
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Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
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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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God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.
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By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man
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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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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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Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
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Satan is an astute theologian.
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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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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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Unless God’s Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.
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Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
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