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Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

John Calvin

The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.
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Faith Fire Ourselves Quality
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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Beginning Faith Humility Intelligence True
Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
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Appearance God Human Love Person
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Deep Knowledge True Wisdom Yourself
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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God Happiness Men Seek
Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success.
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Adversity Dangerous Doubt Men Praise Prosperity Success
If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
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God Knowledge Learning Planning Wisdom
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
Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
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Buy Peace Price Sacrifice Truth
The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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Excellence Live Purity Religious
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
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
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Dog God Myself Silence Truth
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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Endurance Enjoyment Evil Luxury Preparation Yourself
Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
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Grace Human Liberty
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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Faith God Justice Men Right Sin Work
Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
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Exercise Faith Prayer

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