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

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.
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Fear God Heart Himself Men Mercy Sincere Understand Worship
Prayer doesn’t change things – God changes things in answer to prayer.
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Change Faith God Prayer Religious
Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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Destroy Powerful Save
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
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Deep Knowledge True Wisdom Yourself
Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
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Desire Growth Hate Imagination Man Ourselves
Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
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Dangerous Eyes Prosperity
The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.
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Himself Knowledge Learning Life Reading Scripture Truth
The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
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Destruction Men Pride
There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
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Beginning Deep God Religious Spiritual Wisdom
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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Evil God Himself Kind Preparation Unique Worth
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 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
When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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Book God Religious Talk
Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
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Existence God Mistake Purity See Word
The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
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Book Life Religious Tongue Value
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.
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Beyond God Greatness Human Understand

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

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