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Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

John Calvin

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.
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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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Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
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Where God’s Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
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For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
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In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
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The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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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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No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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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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Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success.
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But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
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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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