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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

John Calvin

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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Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
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Perseverance Prayer Result Wasted
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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Food Laughter Music Satisfaction Wine
Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.
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The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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Excellence Live Purity Religious
The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.
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Faith Fire Ourselves Quality
A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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Fools Himself Idiot Men
We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
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Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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Chance Destiny Fate Human Suffering
Unless God’s Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.
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Darkness God Men Misery Way
There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
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Expectation Faith God Himself Place Promise
Where God’s Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
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Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success.
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There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception.
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Deep Knowledge True Wisdom Yourself
When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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