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.
JOHN CALVINScripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
More John Calvin Quotes
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We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
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We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.
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You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.
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Satan is an astute theologian.
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The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.
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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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Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
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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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The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.
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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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Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
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God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.
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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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