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Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

John Calvin

We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God’s benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.
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Experience Joy Meditation Recognition Sorrow Suffering
Prayer doesn’t change things – God changes things in answer to prayer.
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Change Faith God Prayer Religious
No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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Extraordinary God Men Spirit
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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Beginning Faith Humility Intelligence True
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
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Faith Ourselves Spiritual
Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
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Buy Peace Price Sacrifice Truth
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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Fear God Heart Himself Men Mercy Sincere Understand Worship
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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Dog God Myself Silence Truth
Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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Destroy Powerful Save
I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
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Give Up God Myself
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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Fade Fall God Knowledge Taste
In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
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Deep Discover God Oneself Religious
We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.
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Food Laughter Music Satisfaction Wine
The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it.. We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.
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Beyond God Greatness Human Understand
Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
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Book Darkness God Religious View
Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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Chance Destiny Fate Human Suffering

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