Prayer doesn’t change things – God changes things in answer to prayer.
JOHN CALVINPrayer doesn’t change things – God changes things in answer to prayer.
JOHN CALVINMan’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.
JOHN CALVINWhen God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
JOHN CALVINThe 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.
JOHN CALVINHumility is the beginning of true intelligence.
JOHN CALVINGod 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.
JOHN CALVINSometimes 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.
JOHN CALVINI gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
JOHN CALVINMen 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 CALVINWhere God’s Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
JOHN CALVINTo be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts.
JOHN CALVINSatan is an astute theologian.
JOHN CALVINJoy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God’s saving grace in Christ Jesus.
JOHN CALVINPrayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
JOHN CALVINThe blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.
JOHN CALVINOnly 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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