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

John Calvin

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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Dog God Myself Silence Truth
Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
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Fade Fall God Knowledge Taste
We cannot rely on God’s promises without obeying his commandments.
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God Promise Religious Rule
We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
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Character Clothes God Ourselves Religious Right
It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.
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Blessing God Responsibility
Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
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Perseverance Prayer Result Wasted
If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.
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Break Fall Himself Hurt Prayer
Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
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Grace Human Liberty
We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
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Build Ourselves Visible
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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Discover Joy Suffering Yourself
There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
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Beginning Deep God Religious Spiritual Wisdom
There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
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Inspirational Joy Man Nature Spiritual World
Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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Destroy Powerful Save
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
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
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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Darkness God Men Misery Way

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

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