When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
JOHN CALVINWhile all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
More John Calvin Quotes
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Man’s mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.
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Satan is an astute theologian.
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Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
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The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.
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For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
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Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to receive.
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Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.
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Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
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Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God’s truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
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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.
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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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God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.
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