Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God’s saving grace in Christ Jesus.
JOHN CALVINChrist is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
More John Calvin Quotes
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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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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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Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
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Where God’s Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
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There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
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The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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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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When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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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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In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
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For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
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The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
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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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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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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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