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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.

John Calvin

The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
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Humble Progress Sincere Spiritual
Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
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Book Darkness God Religious View
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
Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
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Deep Faith Forever Philosophy Religious See
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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Act Effort God Goodness Willing
Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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Destroy Powerful Save
Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
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Fade Fall God Knowledge Taste
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
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 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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Himself Knowledge Learning Life Reading Scripture Truth
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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Darkness God Men Misery Way
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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Discover Joy Suffering Yourself
When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
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Change Design Forgiveness Heart Himself Spirit
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Deep Knowledge True Wisdom Yourself
Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.
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God Himself Sleep Time Work

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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