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• There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love.

  John Calvin

  Mean, Two, Golden

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

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• The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.

  John Calvin

  Real, Skills, Application

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• For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that He was confined therein. Here is something marvellous: the Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, He willed to be borne in the virgin's womb, to go about the earth, and to hang upon the cross; yet He continuously filled the world even as He had done from the beginning.

  John Calvin

  Son, Men, Essence

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• Everyone flatters himself and carries a kingdom in his breast.

  John Calvin

  Kingdoms, Breasts, Carrie

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

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• Even if this earth is only a vestibule, we ought undoubtedly to make such a use of its blessing that we are assisted rather than delayed in our journey.

  John Calvin

  Blessing, Journey, Use

  "Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life" by John Calvin, Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group, Grand Rapids, Michingan, United States, (p. 84), December 1, 2004.

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• The denial of ourselves which Christ has so diligently commanded his disciples from the beginning will at last dominate all the desires of our heart.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Desire, Lasts

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.28, Baker Books

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• For so great is the difference between just and unjust, that it is visible even in the lifeless image of it. For what order will be left in the world, if these opposites be confounded together? Such a distinction as this, therefore, between virtuous and vicious actions, has not only been engraven by the Lord in the heart of every man, but has also been frequently confirmed by his providential dispensations.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Men, Action

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• The whole life of Christians ought to be an exercise of piety, since they are called to sanctification. It is the office of the law to remind them of their duty and thereby to excite them to the pursuit of holiness and integrity. But when their consciences are solicitous how God may be propitiated, what answer they shall make, and on what they shall rest their confidence, if called to his tribunal, there must then be no consideration of the requisitions of the law, but Christ alone must be proposed for righteousness, who exceeds all the perfection of the law.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Integrity, Exercise

  John Calvin (1985). “On God and Political Duty: Calvin”, Prentice Hall

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• There is no erratic power or action or motion in creatures but they are governed by God's secret plan in such a way that nothing happens except what is knowingly and willingly decreed by Him.

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  Secret, Erratic, Way

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• Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.

  John Calvin

  Wisdom, Art, Truth

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• For though we very truly hear that the kingdom of God will be filled with splendor, joy, happiness and glory, yet when these things are spoken of, they remain utterly remote from our perception, and as it were, wrapped in obscurities, until that day.

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  Joy, Perception, Obscurity

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

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• When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?

  John Calvin

  Children, Father, Men

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.56, Baker Books

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• Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?

  John Calvin

  Scary, Copernicus, Venture

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• The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.

  John Calvin

  Needs, Scripture, Fool

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• Hence that dread and amazement with which as Scripture uniformly relates holy men were struck and overwhelmed whenever they beheld the presence of God. Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have.

  John Calvin

  Men, Scripture, Overwhelmed

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Surely in Judas' betrayal it will be no more right, because God both willed that his Son be delivered up, and delivered him up to death, to ascribe the guilt of the crime to God than to transfer the credit for redemption to Judas.

  John Calvin

  Betrayal, Son, Guilt

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• We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.

  John Calvin

  Ministry, May, Speak

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On St. Paul's First Epistle To The Corinthians Vol.1 (Annotated Edition)”, p.253, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.

  John Calvin

  Mother, Son, Honor

  Calvini Opera, Volume 45, 348, 1877-1878.

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• Many people have accused me of such ferocious cruelty that (they allege) I would like to kill again the man I have destroyed. Not only am I indifferent to their comments, but I rejoice in the fact that they spit in my face.

  John Calvin

  Men, People, Faces

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• This is the highest honour of the Church, that, until He is united to us, the Son of God reckons himself in some measure imperfect. What consolation is it for us to learn, that, not until we are along with him, does he possess all his parts, or wish to be regarded as complete! Hence, in the First Epistle to the Corinthians, when the apostle discusses largely the metaphor of a human body, he includes under the single name of Christ the whole Church.

  John Calvin

  Son, Names, Church

  "Commentaries on the Epistles of Paul to the Galatians and Ephesians" by Jean Calvin, William Pringle, Edinburgh, (p. 218), 1854.

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• As far as sacred Scripture is concerned, however much froward men try to gnaw at it, nevertheless it clearly is crammed with thoughts that could not be humanly conceived. Let each of the prophets be looked into: none will be found who does not far exceed human measure. Consequently, those for whom prophetic doctrine is tasteless ought to be thought of as lacking taste buds.

  John Calvin

  Men, Trying, Sacred

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.362, Oxford University Press

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• For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is something written, are scarcely able to make out two consecutive words, but, when aided by glasses, begin to read distinctly, so Scripture, gathering together the impressions of Deity, which, till then, lay confused in our minds, dissipates the darkness, and shows us the true God clearly.

  John Calvin

  Confused, Book, Two

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.33, Lulu.com

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• When we see that the whole sum of our salvation, and every single part of it, are comprehended in Christ, we must beware of deriving even the minutest portion of it from any other quarter.

  John Calvin

  Christ, Salvation, Quarters

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.465, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If God contains the fullness of all good things in Himself like an inexhaustible fountain, nothing beyond Him is to be sought by those who strike after the highest good and all the elements of happiness.

  John Calvin

  Elements, Fountain, Good Things

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• Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Fasting, Worship

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.88, Ravenio Books

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