All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
JOHN CALVINThere is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
More John Calvin Quotes
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A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
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Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
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There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
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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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Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
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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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Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
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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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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 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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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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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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