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• To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.

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  Mean, Insanity, Christ

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• The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.

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  Shining, Glory, Crosses

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• Because the will renewed is the Lord's work, it is wrongly attributed to man that he obeys prevenient grace with his will as attendant.

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  Men, Grace, Lord

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• The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.

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  Heart, Vanity, Hypocrisy

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• Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?

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  Glamour, Garments, Fixed

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.88, Baker Books

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• In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.

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  Wine, Men, Water

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• The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory.

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  Doubt, Theatre, World

  John Calvin (2007). “Commentaries on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews”, p.266, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Then let every one of us, being warned by this sentence of the angel, acknowledge that he as yet cleaves to first principles, or, at least, does not comprehend all those things which are necessary to be known; and that therefore progress is to be made to the very end of life: for this is our wisdom, to be learners to the end.

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  Angel, Progress, Firsts

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Zechariah And Malachi (Annotated Edition)”, p.114, Jazzybee Verlag

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• it must be plain also that we should not anxiously strive for riches and honors by relying on our own diligence or cleverness or by depending on the favor of men or by trusting in the notion of good luck, but that we should always expect the Lord to direct us to the lot he has provided for us.

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  Good Luck, Men, Honor

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.42, Baker Books

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• To have a proper understanding of the gospel, we must recognise that we need to lean entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ and his mercy alone as our only hope of salvation. ... No one can be justified by the law; justification is through faith alone.

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  Jesus, Law, Understanding

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• No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!

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  Perseverance, Giving Up, Moving

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• The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.

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  Enemy, Should, More Time

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• Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.

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  Believe, Care, Belief

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• Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary to maintain the kingdom of Christ.

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  Blessed, Kingdoms, Christ

  John Calvin “John Calvin's Bible Commentaries On St. Paul's First Epistle To The Corinthians Vol.1”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

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  Godly, Misery, Strive

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• All the more vile is the stupidity of those persons who open heaven to all the impious and unbelieving without the grace of Him whom Scripture commonly teaches to be the only door whereby we enter into salvation.

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  Doors, Stupidity, Heaven

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• Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

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  Persuasion, Certain, Benevolence

  John Calvin (2009). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.501, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal.

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  Country, Believe, Heaven

  John Calvin (2013). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 2: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.57, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God.

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  Wings, Soul, Rising

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• Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.

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  Two, Sound, Knowledge Of God

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• The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

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  Soul, Criminal Mind, Hell

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Gilbert Josiah Hotchkiss, p. 157, 1895.

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• The Fanaticism which discards the Scripture, under the pretense of resorting to immediate revelations is subversive of every principle of Christianity. For when they boast extravagantly of the Spirit, the tendency is always to bury the Word of God so they may make room for their own falsehoods.

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  Lying, Religion, May

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• For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.

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  Art, Astronomy, Admirable

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Genesis 1-23 (Annotated Edition)”, p.60, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.

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  Life Changing, Eye, Devil

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.628, Jazzybee Verlag

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• All things being at God's disposal, and the decision of salvation or death belonging to him, he orders all things by his counsel and decree in such a manner, that some men are born devoted from the womb to certain death, that his name may be glorified in their destruction.

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  Men, Order, Names

  John Calvin (2013). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 2: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.169, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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