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If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.

John Calvin

Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
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Grace Human Liberty
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
A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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Fools Himself Idiot Men
The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
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Chance God Grace Men Spirit Taste
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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Adversity Dangerous Doubt Men Praise Prosperity Success
There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
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Beginning Deep God Religious Spiritual Wisdom
The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.
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Faith Fire Ourselves Quality
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
The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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Excellence Live Purity Religious
Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
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Exercise Faith Prayer
To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts.
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Freedom Grace Heart Law Ourselves Spirit
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
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Cruel God Judgement Nation Rule
But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
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Act Believe Book Faith Fools God Religious Word
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
When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.
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Action Belief Fly Inspirational Learning Myself
All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
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Born God Knowledge Obiedience True

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