We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.
JOHN CALVIN
When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
More John Calvin Quotes
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We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.
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The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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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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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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A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
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We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God’s benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.
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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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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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For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
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A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
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No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
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Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
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