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• There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

  John Calvin

  Confidence, Block, Christian Inspirational

  Jean Calvin, John Calvin, David Wishart Torrance, A. W. Morrison (1996). “A Harmony of the Gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke”, p.245, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we are.

  John Calvin

  Sometimes, Busy, Enjoy

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• Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.

  John Calvin

  Faith, Religious, Unseen

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• Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven... While joy overcomes sorrow, it does not put an end to it.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Joy, Heaven

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• When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Design, Forgiving

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Zechariah And Malachi (Annotated Edition)”, p.194, Jazzybee Verlag

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• My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Heart, Giving

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• We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

  John Calvin

  May, Infant, Eternal

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• Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.

  John Calvin

  Faith, Religious, Suffering

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• For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill (Deut 32:15).

  John Calvin

  Medicine, Giving, Physicians

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.55, Baker Books

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• Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Doubtful

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Psalms 119 - 150 (Annotated Edition)”, p.209, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.

  John Calvin

  Men, Darkness, Way

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• The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

  John Calvin

  Men, Giving, Grace

  John Calvin (2013). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 2: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.193, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• On the contrary, therefore, Christ declares that the doctrine of the Gospel, though it is preached to all without exception, cannot be embraced by all, but that a new understanding and a new perception are requisite; and, therefore, that faith does not depend on the will of men, but that it is God who gives it.

  John Calvin

  Men, Giving, Understanding

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 1 (Annotated Edition)”, p.231, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

  John Calvin

  Men, Light, House

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• A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.

  John Calvin

  Men, Sight, Justified

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.318, Lulu.com

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• Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all

  John Calvin

  Men, Grace, Special

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.235, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We are surrounded by God’s benefits. The best use of these benefits is an unceasing expression of gratitude.

  John Calvin

  Gratitude, Expression, Use

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• To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.

  John Calvin

  Grace, Fallen, Humans

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• Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

  John Calvin

  Mother, Idols, Craftsman

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• If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.

  John Calvin

  Gratitude, Proud, Talent

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.33, Baker Books

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• All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

  John Calvin

  Knowledge Of God, Obedience, Born

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• Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Godly, Tyrants

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• There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

  John Calvin

  Soul, Attention, Body

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.90, Baker Books

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• But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

  John Calvin

  Wish, Acting, Scripture

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.13, Oxford University Press

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• The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it..
  We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.

  John Calvin

  Understanding, Majesty, Splendor

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