The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
JOHN CALVINWhen God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
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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A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.
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In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
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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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Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
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The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.
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Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
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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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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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Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
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When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
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Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
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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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No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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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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