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When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.

John Calvin

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.
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Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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Destroy Powerful Save
Where God’s Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
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The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.
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Faith Fire Ourselves Quality
Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
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It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
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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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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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The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.
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Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
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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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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 may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.
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When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
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We cannot rely on God’s promises without obeying his commandments.
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When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.

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