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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.

John Calvin

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.
JOHN CALVIN

Act Effort God Goodness Willing
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
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
All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
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Born God Knowledge Obiedience True
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
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Confidence Inspirational Ourselves Worst
While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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God Happiness Men Seek
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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Act Believe Book Faith Fools God Religious Word
When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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Book God Religious Talk
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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God Himself Sleep Time Work
The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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Excellence Live Purity Religious
We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
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Character Clothes God Ourselves Religious Right
The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.
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Faith Fire Ourselves Quality
Prayer doesn’t change things – God changes things in answer to prayer.
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Change Faith God Prayer Religious
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
JOHN CALVIN

Faith Ourselves Spiritual
The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
JOHN CALVIN

Chance God Grace Men Spirit Taste
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.
JOHN CALVIN

Forever Glory God Justice Mercy Punishment Race Sin

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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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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