Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
JOHN CALVINWe 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.
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 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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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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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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A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.
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When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
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There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
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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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The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.
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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
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All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
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We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
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Prayer doesn’t change things – God changes things in answer to prayer.
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How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.
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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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