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Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

John Calvin

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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Forever Glory God Justice Mercy Punishment Race Sin
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
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Faith Ourselves Spiritual
There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
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Beginning Deep God Religious Spiritual Wisdom
Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
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Buy Peace Price Sacrifice Truth
Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
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Enjoyment Forever Glory Goal Ourselves
Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
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Dangerous Eyes Prosperity
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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Inspirational Joy Man Nature Spiritual World
When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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Book God Religious Talk
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Deep Knowledge True Wisdom Yourself
No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
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Belief God Man Ourselves
Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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Destroy Powerful Save
Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
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Alone Beyond Perfection Satisfaction
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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Busy Enjoyment Present Quick Time
We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.
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Food Laughter Music Satisfaction Wine
Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
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Existence God Mistake Purity See Word
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
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Cruel God Judgement Nation Rule
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Deep Knowledge True Wisdom Yourself
A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
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Believe Faith Perfection
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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Act Believe Book Faith Fools God Religious Word
Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.
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Book Learning Religious Satisfaction Shame True Understand
The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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Book Life Religious Tongue Value
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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Freedom Grace Heart Law Ourselves Spirit
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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Gift God Himself Religious
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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Character Clothes God Ourselves Religious Right
Where God’s Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
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God Humility Men Pride Spirit
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
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Confidence Inspirational Ourselves Worst
The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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Excellence Live Purity Religious

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