Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
JOHN CALVINWe must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
More John Calvin Quotes
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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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My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
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God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.
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Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
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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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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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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
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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 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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Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
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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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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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When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.
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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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