Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
JOHN CALVINThe one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
More John Calvin Quotes
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The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it.. We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.
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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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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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My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
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We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.
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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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Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
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We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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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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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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I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
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If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.
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When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.
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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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Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
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