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• It is faith alone that justifies, but faith that justifies can never be alone.

  John Calvin

  Justify

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• Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of.

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  Wrath, Soul, Scripture

  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.229, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.

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  Men, Faces, Firsts

  John Calvin, Mark DeVries, Kirk Freeman (1999). “Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.15, B&H Publishing Group

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• They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.

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  Angel, Godly, Roots

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  Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence toward us.

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  Angel, Divine, Solicitude

  Jean Calvin, John Allen (1844). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.155

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• They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission - as if God sat in a watchtower awaiting chance events , and his judgments thus depended upon human will.

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  Events, Chance, Judgment

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• All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

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  Sweet, Grace, Our Words

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• Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.

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  Yield, Flames, Desire

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Genesis 1-23 (Annotated Edition)”, p.523, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

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  God, Doe, Glisten

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• It is permissible to use wine not only for necessity, but also to make us merry...... [it must be moderate] lest men forget themselves, drown their senses,.....in making merry [those who enjoy wine] feel a livelier gratitude to God.

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  Gratitude, Wine, Men

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• It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be spectators of this beauteous theatre, but also enjoy the multiplied abundance and variety of good things which are presented to us in it.

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  Order, Theatre, May

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Psalms 93 - 119 (Annotated Edition)”, p.143, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.

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  Prayer, Mercy

  John Calvin (2012). “Of Prayer (Annotated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

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  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Constancy

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On St. Paul's Epistle To The Hebrews (Annotated Edition)”, p.75, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.

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  Fall, Majesty, Faults

  John Calvin, Jean Calvin, Thomas Boston (1996). “Sermons on Galatians”, Banner of Truth

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• To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.

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  Mean, Humility, Passion

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.41, Baker Books

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• Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction.

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  Children, Differences, Noble

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.57, Baker Books

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• I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.

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  Principles, Needs, Compromise

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• Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.

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  Motivational, Accomplishment, Despair

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

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• Faith consists not in ignorance, but in knowledge - knowledge not of God merely...but when we recognize God as a propitious Father through the reconciliation made by Christ, and Christ as given to us for righteousness, sanctification, and life.

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  Father, Ignorance, Christ

  Mortimer J. Adler, John Calvin (1993). “Institutes of the Christian religion”

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• We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.

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  Sovereign, Pleasure, Dies

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

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• Joy and patience are far above our strength... We must persevere in prayer that he may not permit our hearts to faint... Prayer and perseverance are necessary in our daily conflicts. The best remedy to the weariness is diligence in prayer.

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  Perseverance, Prayer, Heart

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• Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation.

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  Pride, Men, Vanity

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.24, Lulu.com

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• As by the revolt of the first man, the image of God could be effaced from his mind and soul, so there is nothing strange in His shedding some rays of grace on the reprobate, and afterwards allowing these to be extinguished.

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  Men, Grace, Soul

  John Calvin (2014). “Obtaining the Grace of Christ: Institutes of The Christian Religion (Book 3)”, p.80, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.

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  Ignorance, Divine Will, Divine

  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.491, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3)

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  Faith, Ignorance, Humility

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