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Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.

John Calvin

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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Discover Joy Suffering Yourself
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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Beginning Faith Humility Intelligence True
You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.
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Blessing Enjoyment Imagination Powerful Rule
I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
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Give Up God Myself
When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
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Change Design Forgiveness Heart Himself Spirit
The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.
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Faith Fire Ourselves Quality
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
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
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Faith Ourselves Spiritual
We cannot rely on God’s promises without obeying his commandments.
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God Promise Religious Rule
How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.
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Believe Creation Election God Himself World
Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
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Perseverance Prayer Result Wasted
The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
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Destruction Men Pride
No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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Extraordinary God Men Spirit
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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Character Clothes God Ourselves Religious Right
There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
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Beginning Deep God Religious Spiritual Wisdom
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

Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.

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Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.

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