The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
JOHN CALVINA 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.
More John Calvin Quotes
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Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God’s saving grace in Christ Jesus.
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When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
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The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
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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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Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
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All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
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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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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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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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A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.
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If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
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Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
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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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It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.
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