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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.

John Calvin

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
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.
JOHN CALVIN

Himself Knowledge Learning Life Reading Scripture Truth
We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
JOHN CALVIN

Build Ourselves Visible
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 CALVIN

Evil God Himself Kind Preparation Unique Worth
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.
JOHN CALVIN

Freedom Grace Heart Law Ourselves Spirit
The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
JOHN CALVIN

Excellence Live Purity Religious
I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
JOHN CALVIN

Give Up God Myself
A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
JOHN CALVIN

Believe Faith Perfection
We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.
JOHN CALVIN

God Hope Ourselves Strength Weakness
Where God’s Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
JOHN CALVIN

God Humility Men Pride Spirit
Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.
JOHN CALVIN

Gift God Himself Religious
No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
JOHN CALVIN

Extraordinary God Men Spirit
We cannot rely on God’s promises without obeying his commandments.
JOHN CALVIN

God Promise Religious Rule
We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.
JOHN CALVIN

Death Exception God Suffering
The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
JOHN CALVIN

Humble Progress Sincere Spiritual
If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
JOHN CALVIN

God Knowledge Learning Planning Wisdom

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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