Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.
JOHN CALVINRepentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.
More John Calvin Quotes
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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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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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Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
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A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
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Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.
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In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
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Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.
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The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.
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Prayer doesn’t change things – God changes things in answer to prayer.
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We cannot rely on God’s promises without obeying his commandments.
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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
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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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Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
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Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
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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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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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The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.
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If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
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We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.
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God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.
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Satan is an astute theologian.
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We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.
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Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.
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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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