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• True faith is ever connected with hope.

  John Calvin

  Faith, Christian, Connected

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On St. Paul's Epistle To The Hebrews (Annotated Edition)”, p.131, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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• God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.

  John Calvin

  Order, May, Ought

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.287, Jazzybee Verlag

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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 can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word.

  John Calvin

  Men, Support

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Zechariah And Malachi (Annotated Edition)”, p.183, Jazzybee Verlag

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• For it was not after we were reconciled to him by the blood of his Son that he began to love us, but he loved us before the foundation of the world, that with his only begotten Son we too might be sons of God before we were anything at all.

  John Calvin

  Son, Blood, Foundation

  "Institutes of the Christian Religion".

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• The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.

  John Calvin

  Effort, Firsts, Good Work

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.266, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Memories, Hours In The Day

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Daniel 1- 6 (Annotated Edition)”, p.342, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.

  John Calvin

  Sin, Free Will

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• You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

  John Calvin

  Order, Joy, Suffering

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• Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.

  John Calvin

  Merit, Holiness, Christ

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.17, Baker Books

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• Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.

  John Calvin

  Justification, True Religion, Turns

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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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• We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Hands, Mind

  "Institutes of the Christian Religion" by John Calvin, translated by Henry Beveridge, Book III, (Ch. 20), 1845.

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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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• Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace.

  John Calvin

  Godly, Doubt, Mind

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.415, Oxford University Press

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• It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.

  John Calvin

  Blessed, Sovereignty, Sovereignty Of God

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• Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.

  John Calvin

  Self, Knowledge Of God, Self Knowledge

  "Institutes of the Christian Religion" by John Calvin, translated by Henry Beveridge, Book I, (Ch. 1), 1845.

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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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• Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

  John Calvin

  Doctrine, Tongue, Affair

  John Calvin (2012). “On the Christian Life (Annotated Edition)”, p.17, Jazzybee Verlag

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• By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man

  John Calvin

  Mean, Men, Determined

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.810, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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• In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.

  John Calvin

  Knowing, Knowing God, Knows

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• Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.

  John Calvin

  Evil, Fellowship, Kind

  John Calvin (2009). “The Christian Life”, p.14, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• No one has rightly denied himself unless he has wholly resigned himself to the Lord and is willing to leave every detail to his good pleasure. If we put ourselves in such a frame of mind, then, whatever may happen to us, we shall never feel miserable or accuse God falsely because of our lot.

  John Calvin

  Mind, Details, May

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.44, Baker Books

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