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God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.

John Calvin

If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
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God Knowledge Learning Planning Wisdom
Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
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Enjoyment Forever Glory Goal Ourselves
Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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Chance Destiny Fate Human Suffering
The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
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Humble Progress Sincere Spiritual
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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God Happiness Men Seek
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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Discover Joy Suffering Yourself
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
No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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Extraordinary God Men Spirit
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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Evil Inspirational Miracle Religious Remember
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
It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
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Alone Faith Justice Religious Wisdom
All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
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Born God Knowledge Obiedience True
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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Break Fall Himself Hurt Prayer
Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God’s saving grace in Christ Jesus.
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God Goodness Grace Heart Joy
The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.
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Act Effort God Goodness Willing
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

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