The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
JOHN CALVINWe cannot rely on God’s promises without obeying his commandments.
More John Calvin Quotes
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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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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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When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
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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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There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception.
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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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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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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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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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The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
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When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
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