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• The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

  John Calvin

  Excellence, Church, Doe

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Isaiah”, p.102, Ravenio Books

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• The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

  John Calvin

  Men, Destruction, Source

  John Calvin (2014). “Obtaining the Grace of Christ: Institutes of The Christian Religion (Book 3)”, p.235, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• God works in his elect in two ways: inwardly, by his Spirit; outwardly, by his Word.

  John Calvin

  Two, Way, Spirit

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.285, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.

  John Calvin

  Doctrine, Tongue

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.20, Baker Books

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• Satan is an astute theologian.

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  Satan, Astute, Theologian

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• It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.

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  Justify, Not Alone

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.198, Oxford University Press

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• The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.

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  Scripture, Christ, Should

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• A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot

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  Men, Fool, Idiot

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On St. Paul's First Epistle To The Corinthians Vol.1 (Annotated Edition)”, p.140, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith

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  Fire, Quality, Affliction

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  God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

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  Race, Punishment, Justice

  "Civility: A Cultural History". Book by Benet Davetian (p. 157), April 18, 2009.

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• The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.

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  Mean, Sheep, Two

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On St. Paul's Epistles To Timothy, Titus And Philemon (Annotated Edition)”, p.262, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.

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  Luxury, Evil, Ease

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• Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

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  Suffering, Chance, Inevitable

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• There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.

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  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  "The Value of Convenience: Genealogy of Technical Culture". Book by Thomas F. Tierney (p. 128), 1993.

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• Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.

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  Flesh, Spirit, Repentance

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• Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.

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  Son, Anchors, Heaven

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• True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

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  Self, Two, Knowledge Of God

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• Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.

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  Prayer, Exercise, Chiefs

  John Calvin (2015). “Commentary on Daniel”, p.353, Ravenio Books

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• There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

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  Knowing, Doe, Knowing God

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• Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.

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  Church, Faults, Heard

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• If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.

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  Doe, Ifs

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• Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.

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  Spiritual, Doe, Fruit

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 1 (Annotated Edition)”, p.39, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.

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  Wine, Laughing, Drink

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• Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.

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  Goal, Forever, Glory

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• To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Heart, Mean

  Jean Calvin, John Calvin, Ford Lewis Battles (1995). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.30, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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