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We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.

John Calvin

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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Desire Exception People Religious World
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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Faith God Justice Men Right Sin Work
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 fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.
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Faith Fire Ourselves Quality
I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
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Give Up God Myself
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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Blessing Enjoyment Imagination Powerful Rule
Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
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It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.
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Blessing God Responsibility
Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
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Alone Beyond Perfection Satisfaction
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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Freedom Grace Heart Law Ourselves Spirit
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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Evil Inspirational Miracle Religious Remember
Where God’s Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
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God Humility Men Pride Spirit
Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
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Deep Faith Forever Philosophy Religious See
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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Darkness God Men Misery Way
For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
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Fools Gift God Himself Place Stupidity Worship
There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
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Beginning Deep God Religious Spiritual Wisdom

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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