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.
JOHN CALVINWe must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
More John Calvin Quotes
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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 perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
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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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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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Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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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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Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
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Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
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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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We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
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Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.
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Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
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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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No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
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