You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
JOHN CALVINYou must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
JOHN CALVINPeace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
JOHN CALVINNothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
JOHN CALVINWhoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
JOHN CALVINWhomever 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.
JOHN CALVINBy predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man
JOHN CALVINSometimes 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.
JOHN CALVINIf 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.
JOHN CALVINThe 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.
JOHN CALVINSometimes 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.
JOHN CALVINTrue wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
JOHN CALVINFaith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.
JOHN CALVINThe 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.
JOHN CALVINThe 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.
JOHN CALVINTrue wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
JOHN CALVINWhen God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
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