The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
JOHN CALVINSometimes 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.
More John Calvin Quotes
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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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We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.
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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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Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.
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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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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
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Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
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Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.
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Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.
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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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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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My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
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Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God’s saving grace in Christ Jesus.
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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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