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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

Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
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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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When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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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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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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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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It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.
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It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
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Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
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A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
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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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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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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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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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The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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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.

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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.

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