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If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.

John Calvin

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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Food Laughter Music Satisfaction Wine
Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.
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Gift God Himself Religious
Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
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Perseverance Prayer Result Wasted
The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
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Humble Progress Sincere Spiritual
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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The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
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Grace Human Liberty
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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We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
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Build Ourselves Visible
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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Prayer doesn’t change things – God changes things in answer to prayer.
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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 cannot rely on God’s promises without obeying his commandments.
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God Promise Religious Rule
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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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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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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If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.

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