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• How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.

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  Jesus, Believe, World

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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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• The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith

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  Fire, Quality, Affliction

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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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• Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.

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  Powerful, Christ, Adam

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Romans”, p.119, Ravenio Books

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• Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.

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  Jesus, Heart, Joy

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

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  Two, Way, Spirit

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

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• Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

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  Grace, Liberty, Doe

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.134, Lulu.com

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• When I took the leap, I had faith I would find a net; Instead I learned I could fly.

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  Action, Leap

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• Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.

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  Heart, Dominion, Riches

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.389, Ravenio Books

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• While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

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  Men, Looks, Hundred

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Psalms”, p.496, Ravenio Books

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• men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success

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  Adversity, Men, Matter

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Isaiah”, p.670, Ravenio Books

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

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  Excellence, Church, Doe

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

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• Satan is an astute theologian.

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  Satan, Astute, Theologian

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• Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

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  Christian, Shame, Wells

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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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• 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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• For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?

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  Worship, Giver, Idolatry

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

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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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• 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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• There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.

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  Promise, Ifs

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai (Annotated Edition)”, p.60, Jazzybee Verlag

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