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• The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.

  John Calvin

  Lying, Evil, Greed

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• God is not limited to any person, but calls freely whomsoever He pleases, and bestows on those who are called whatever rewards He thinks fit.

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  Thinking, Rewards, Fit

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Matthew”, p.403, Ravenio Books

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• Faith is the evidence of divine adoption.

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  Adoption, Divine, Evidence

  John Calvin (2002). “Tracts and Treatises of John Calvin, 3 Volumes”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.

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  Brightness, Christ, Ifs

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• Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

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  Perseverance, Prayer, Results

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.803, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.

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  Christian, Baby, Children

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• Faith alone saves, but the faith that saves is not alone.

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  Not Alone

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

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  Sin, Free Will

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• All truth is God's truth.

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  Truth Is

  Theodore Beza, John Calvin, John Knox, Hugh Latimer (2007). “The Reformation's Light”, p.9, Puritan Publications

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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.

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  Effort, Firsts, Good Work

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

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• The whole gospel is contained in Christ.

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  Christ, Whole

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• True faith is ever connected with hope.

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  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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• 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.

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  Son, Blood, Foundation

  "Institutes of the Christian Religion".

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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.

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  Merit, Holiness, Christ

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

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

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  Men, Support

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

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• The highest honor in the church is not government but service.

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  Christian, Government, Honor

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Gospels Vol. 3”, p.78, Jazzybee Verlag

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

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  Order, Joy, Suffering

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

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  Blessed, Sovereignty, Sovereignty Of God

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

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  Order, May, Ought

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

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

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  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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• 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

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  Mean, Men, Determined

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

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• It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command.

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  Rain, Fall, Certain

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

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  Doctrine, Tongue, Affair

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

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• We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.

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  Claims, Smallest, Ought

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Isaiah”, p.750, Ravenio Books

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• Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.

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  Christian, Fall, Taste

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