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• Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Heart, Joy

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• I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

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  Common Sense, Found, Grain

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Daniel 1- 6 (Annotated Edition)”, p.175, Jazzybee Verlag

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• After 50 years, is it not clear that God has raised up new illnesses connected with fornication? From where do these things come if not from the hand of God? [In response to these diseases] The world was astounded, and people were terrified for a time, but they have not, to this day, observed the hand of God.

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  Hands, Years, People

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• Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.

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  Men, Giving, Sincerely

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• For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.

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  Numbers, Mankind, Ought

  John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• It is entirely the work of grace and a benefit conferred by it that our heart is changed from a stony one to one of flesh, that our will is made new, and that we, created anew in heart and mind, at length will what we ought to will.

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  Heart, Grace, Mind

  John Calvin (2002). “The Bondage and Liberation of the Will (Texts and Studies in Reformation and Post-Reformation Thought): A Defence of the Orthodox Doctrine of Human Choice against Pighius”, p.287, Baker Books

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• For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by His fatherly care, that He is the Author of their every good, that they should seek nothing beyond Him - they will never yield Him willing service. Nay, unless they establish their complete happiness in Him, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to Him.

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  Men, Yield, Giving

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.324, Oxford University Press

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• The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.

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  Spiritual, Blessing, Agency

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• Men are indeed to be taught that the favour of God is offered, without exception, to all who ask it; but since those only begin to ask whom heaven by grace inspires, even this minute portion of praise must not be withheld from Him. It is the privilege of the elect to be regenerated by the Spirit of God, and then placed under His guidance and government.

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  Men, Heaven, Grace

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.132, Lulu.com

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• We are promised abundance of all good things--yet we are rich only in hunger and thirst. What would become of us if we did not take our stand on hope, and if our heart did not hasten beyond this world!

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  Hope, Heart, World

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• Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church.

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  Church, May, Scripture

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.35, Baker Books

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• If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.

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  Mean, Men, People

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• Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.

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  Christ, Salvation, Application

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• The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy.

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  Mother, Baby, Should

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• But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church. As if the eternal and inviolable truth of God depended upon the decision of men!

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  Men, Errors, Decision

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.354, Oxford University Press

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• There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.

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  Pride, People, Giving

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.39, Baker Books

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• The Lord commands us to do good unto all men without exception, though the majority are very undeserving when judged according to their own merits. But scripture here helps us out with an excellent argument when it teaches us that we must not think of man's real value, but only of his creation in the image of God to which we owe all possible honor and love.

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  Love, Real, Men

  "Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life". Book by John Calvin, 1550.

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• Now among the other things proper to recreate man and give him pleasure, music is either the first or one of the principal;and we must think that it is a gift of God deputed for that purpose'.

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  Men, Thinking, Giving

  "Geneva Psalter". Book by John Calvin, 1539.

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• We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

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  Love, Men, Honor

  John Calvin (2016). “On the Christian Life”, p.20, Whitaker House

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• First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign ourselves and all that we have to the will of God, and at the same time we should surrender our affections to him as our Conqueror and Overlord.

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  Ease, Want, Scripture

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.40, Baker Books

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• Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.

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  Mean, Repentance, Distinguished

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.527, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Peace and friendship are an amiable thing among men. They be so indeed, and we ought to seek them to the uttermost of our power. But yet for all that, we must set such store by God's truth, that if all the world should be set on fire for the maintenance thereof, we should not stick at it.

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  Men, Fire, Maintenance

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• We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.

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  Fleeting Life, Looks, Fit

  John Calvin (2007). “Letters of John Calvin”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.

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  Flesh, Spirit, Regeneration

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.256, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Were the judgments of mankind correct, custom would be regulated by the good. But it is often far otherwise in point of fact; for, whatever the many are seen to do, forthwith obtains the force of custom. But human affairs have scarcely ever been so happily constituted as that the better course pleased the greater number. Hence the private vices of the multitude have generally resulted in public error, or rather that common consent in vice which these worthy men would have to be law.

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  Men, Law, Numbers

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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