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.
JOHN CALVINThose who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
More John Calvin Quotes
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My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
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The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
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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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When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.
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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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Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God’s saving grace in Christ Jesus.
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We cannot rely on God’s promises without obeying his commandments.
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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
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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.
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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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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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Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
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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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I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
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