Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
JOHN CALVINThe Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.
More John Calvin Quotes
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There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
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We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.
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Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
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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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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.
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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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God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.
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Only 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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
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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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A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
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Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
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It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
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