We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.
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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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.
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No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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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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Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
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There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
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There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
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The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
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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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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
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The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.
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No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
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We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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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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A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
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