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Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.

John Calvin

Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
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It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.
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Blessing God Responsibility
Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.
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God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.
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Action Election God Spirit Word Work
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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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Deep Knowledge True Wisdom Yourself
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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Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
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Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
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Dangerous Eyes Prosperity
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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Death Exception God Suffering
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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Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
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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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We cannot rely on God’s promises without obeying his commandments.
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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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