Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
JOHN CALVINWe cannot rely on God’s promises without obeying his commandments.
More John Calvin Quotes
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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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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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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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There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
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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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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
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There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
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The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.
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We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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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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Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
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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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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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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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The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
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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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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.
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No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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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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A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.
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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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