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The 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.

John Calvin

A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
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Believe Faith Perfection
It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.
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Blessing God Responsibility
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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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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Faith God Justice Men Right Sin Work
Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
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Dangerous Eyes Prosperity
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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Evil God Himself Kind Preparation Unique Worth
The 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.
JOHN CALVIN

Himself Knowledge Learning Life Reading Scripture Truth
We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
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Build Ourselves Visible
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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The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.
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Faith Fire Ourselves Quality
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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Evil Inspirational Miracle Religious Remember
Prayer doesn’t change things – God changes things in answer to prayer.
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Change Faith God Prayer Religious
Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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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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Endurance Enjoyment Evil Luxury Preparation Yourself
A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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Fools Himself Idiot Men
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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The 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.

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The 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.

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