Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
JOHN CALVINWe must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
More John Calvin Quotes
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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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The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.
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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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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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The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
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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 one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
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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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Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
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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 grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
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We cannot rely on God’s promises without obeying his commandments.
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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 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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