The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
JOHN CALVINWe must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
More John Calvin Quotes
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How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.
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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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Satan is an astute theologian.
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Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
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Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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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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You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.
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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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There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
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All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
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Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.
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Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
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The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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