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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

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.
JOHN CALVIN

Busy Enjoyment Present Quick Time
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
I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
JOHN CALVIN

Give Up God Myself
We cannot rely on God’s promises without obeying his commandments.
JOHN CALVIN

God Promise Religious Rule
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
JOHN CALVIN

Deep Knowledge True Wisdom Yourself
The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.
JOHN CALVIN

Animal Book Oneself Path Religious Voice
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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Life Ourselves Purity Spirit True
Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
JOHN CALVIN

Deep Faith Forever Philosophy Religious See
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
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Faith Ourselves Spiritual
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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Inspirational Joy Man Nature Spiritual World
My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
JOHN CALVIN

Heart Myself Yourself
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
JOHN CALVIN

Discover Joy Suffering Yourself
Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
JOHN CALVIN

Desire Growth Hate Imagination Man Ourselves
A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
JOHN CALVIN

Believe Faith Perfection
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.
JOHN CALVIN

Belief God Man Ourselves
All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
JOHN CALVIN

Born God Knowledge Obiedience True

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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