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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

John Calvin

The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
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When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.
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We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.
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In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
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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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There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
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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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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
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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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A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
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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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We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

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