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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

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.
JOHN CALVIN

Fear God Heart Himself Men Mercy Sincere Understand Worship
When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
JOHN CALVIN

Change Design Forgiveness Heart Himself Spirit
Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
JOHN CALVIN

Faith Ourselves Spiritual
Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.
JOHN CALVIN

Evil God Himself Kind Preparation Unique Worth
We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
JOHN CALVIN

Character Clothes God Ourselves Religious Right
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.
JOHN CALVIN

Blessing Enjoyment Imagination Powerful Rule
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
JOHN CALVIN

Discover Joy Suffering Yourself
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
JOHN CALVIN

Deep Knowledge True Wisdom Yourself
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.
JOHN CALVIN

Book Learning Religious Satisfaction Shame True Understand
I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
JOHN CALVIN

Give Up God Myself
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.
JOHN CALVIN

Forever Glory God Justice Mercy Punishment Race Sin
The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it.. We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.
JOHN CALVIN

Beyond God Greatness Human Understand
Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.
JOHN CALVIN

Belief Empty Faith God Hands Religious
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.
JOHN CALVIN

Freedom Grace Heart Law Ourselves Spirit
A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
JOHN CALVIN

Believe Faith Perfection
Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
JOHN CALVIN

Buy Peace Price Sacrifice Truth

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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