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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

John Calvin

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.
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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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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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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When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
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The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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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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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.
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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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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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Men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success.
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A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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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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In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
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Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

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