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• When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

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  God, Giving, Judging

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• Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

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  Christian, Hands, Empty

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• For the fetus, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and it is a monstrous crime to rob it of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy. If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man's house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

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  Mother, Men, Light

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  Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

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  Faith, Humility, Christianity

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Ezekiel 1- 12 (Annotated Edition)”, p.84, Jazzybee Verlag

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  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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  Firsts, Christ, Righteousness

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Romans”, p.166, Ravenio Books

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• If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.

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  Fall, Firsts, Steps

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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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  Christian, Dog, Religious

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• Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

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  Godly, Christian Love, May

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• Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

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  Faith, Religious, Prayer

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• 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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  Heart, Men, Worship

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• I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

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  Christ, Found, Gave Up

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• The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life!

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  Peaceful, Doe, Delight

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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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  Luxury, Evil, Ease

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• The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.

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  Spiritual, Humble, Progress

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.23, Baker Books

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  Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

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  Perfection, Christ, Strive

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on the Gospel of John”, p.416, Ravenio Books

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  God 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.

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  Race, Punishment, Justice

  "Civility: A Cultural History". Book by Benet Davetian (p. 157), April 18, 2009.

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• The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

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  Excellence, Church, Doe

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Isaiah”, p.102, Ravenio Books

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• When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

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  Action, Leap

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• Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.

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  Sacrifice

  John Calvin (2002). “Tracts and Treatises of John Calvin, 3 Volumes”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.

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  Wavering, Weak, Dormant

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Psalms”, p.340, Ravenio Books

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• Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

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  Christian, Shame, Wells

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• Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

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  Prayer, Powerful, Men

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

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  Men, Looks, Hundred

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Psalms”, p.496, Ravenio Books

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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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  Mean, Sheep, Two

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On St. Paul's Epistles To Timothy, Titus And Philemon (Annotated Edition)”, p.262, Jazzybee Verlag

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• men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success

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  Adversity, Men, Matter

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Isaiah”, p.670, Ravenio Books

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