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 CALVINThe one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
More John Calvin Quotes
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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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By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man
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No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.
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A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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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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The 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.
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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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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
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Satan is an astute theologian.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
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Prayer doesn’t change things – God changes things in answer to prayer.
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We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
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Man’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.
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