We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God’s benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.
JOHN CALVINTrue wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
More John Calvin Quotes
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I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
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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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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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But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
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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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It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.
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When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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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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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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The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
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A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.
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Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.
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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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