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• The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the scholars; but there is nobody who does not imagine that he is really better than others.

  John Calvin

  Yield, People, Ignorant

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.32, Baker Books

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• Moreover, a true Christian will not ascribe any prosperity to his own diligence, industry, or good fortune, but he will acknowledge that God is the author of it.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Prosperity, Diligence

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.43, Baker Books

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• Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.

  John Calvin

  Church, Christianity, Institutions

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• But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.

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  Faithful, Mercy, Goodness

  "Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life" by John Calvin, Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michingan, United States, (p. 45), December 1, 2004.

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• No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.

  John Calvin

  Joy, Suffering, World

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• Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.

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  Promise, Life Is, Mercy

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• Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

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  Church, Conviction, Submit

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.484, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

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  Wisdom, Honesty, Truth

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.173, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Bien que les étoiles ne parlent pas, même en étant silencieux, ils crient. Although the stars do not speak, even in being silent they cry out.

  John Calvin

  Stars, Cry, Speak

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• Men are idol factories.

  John Calvin

  Men, Idols, Factories

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• The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.

  John Calvin

  Vices, Sometimes, Virtue

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.32, Baker Books

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• While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it.

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  Grace, Overcoming, Sin

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Romans”, p.125, Ravenio Books

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• If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and that it is impossible for any man to obtain even the minutest portion of right and sound doctrine without being a disciple of Scripture.

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  Teaching, Men, Scripture

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight.

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  Sight, Shining, Tasks

  John Calvin (2009). “The Christian Life”, p.33, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere. (on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6)

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  Art, Mind, Principles

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• Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.

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  Fancy, Worship, Conceit

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.53, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Whensoever God's truth is defaced or when any man turns away from the pure simplicity of the Gospel, we must not in any wise spare him, but although the whole world should set itself against us, yet must we maintain the case with invincible constancy, without bending for any creature.

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  Wise, Men, Simplicity

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• But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself.

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  Hatred, Sin, Should

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.75, Baker Books

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• In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners.

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  Law, Perfect, Shining

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• The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.

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  Spiritual, Nature, Men

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Law Vol. 2”, p.132, Jazzybee Verlag

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• This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.'

  John Calvin

  Divinity, Free Will

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• Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people.

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  People, Ignorant, Satan

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• The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus men practice mutual deception on each other and fall asleep in wicked indifference.

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  Fall, Men, Practice

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.354, Ravenio Books

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• It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.

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  Mouths, Praise, Goodness

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Psalms 1 - 35 (Annotated Edition)”, p.112, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be ungrateful toward God. For this life, though it is full of countless miseries, deserves to be reckoned among the divine blessings which should not be despised. Therefore, if we discover nothing of God's goodness in it, we are already guilty of no small ingratitude toward him.

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  Hate, Blessing, Effort

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.72, Baker Books

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