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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

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
We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
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Build Ourselves Visible
When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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Book God Religious Talk
My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
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Heart Myself Yourself
There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception.
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Desire Exception People Religious World
It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.
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Blessing God Responsibility
We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.
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Food Laughter Music Satisfaction Wine
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.
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Busy Enjoyment Present Quick Time
It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
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Alone Faith Justice Religious Wisdom
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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Blessing Enjoyment Imagination Powerful Rule
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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Faith God Justice Men Right Sin Work
Where God’s Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
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God Humility Men Pride Spirit
Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
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Existence God Mistake Purity See Word
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.
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Forever Glory God Justice Mercy Punishment Race Sin
The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.
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Endurance Enjoyment Evil Luxury Preparation Yourself
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Deep Knowledge True Wisdom Yourself

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.

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