Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.
JOHN CALVINNothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
More John Calvin Quotes
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We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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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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How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.
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It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
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It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.
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If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
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A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.
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We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
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A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.
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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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Where God’s Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
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The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith.
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Unless God’s Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.
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