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In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.

John Calvin

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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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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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
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The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
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Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
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The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.
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It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
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Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
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The 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.
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By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man
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Whomever 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.
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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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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
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