Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
JOHN CALVINThere is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
More John Calvin Quotes
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We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God’s benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.
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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
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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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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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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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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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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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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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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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The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.
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All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
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There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
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The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
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By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man
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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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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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Man’s mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.
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The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.
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We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.
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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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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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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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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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Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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