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 CALVINWe 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 CALVINThe surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
JOHN CALVINNothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
JOHN CALVINFaith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.
JOHN CALVINHumility is the beginning of true intelligence.
JOHN CALVINWe must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.
JOHN CALVINI gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
JOHN CALVINGod 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 CALVINPrayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
JOHN CALVINGod works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.
JOHN CALVINHatred 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.
JOHN CALVINHuman will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
JOHN CALVINNo 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.
JOHN CALVINThe grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
JOHN CALVINWhen God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
JOHN CALVINScripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.
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