John Calvin Quotes - Page 6

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• Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

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  Men, Delight, Poverty

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• So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.

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  Evil, Use, Instruments

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• The true wisdom of man consists in the knowledge of God the creator and Redeemer.

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  Men, Knowledge Of God, Creator

  John Calvin (2013). “God the Redeemer: Institutes of The Christian Religion (Book 2)”, p.412, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

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  Powerful, Men, Our Love

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• When we hear any mention of our mystical union with Christ, we should remember that holiness is the channel to do it.

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  Holiness, Unions, Remember

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

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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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• A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.

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  Perfect, Found, Unbelievers

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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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• Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

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  Science, Religion, Christ

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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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• All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions

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  Art, Invention, Divine

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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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• Let us be peaceable as near as we can: let us relent of our own right: let us not strive for these worldly goods, honour and reputation: let us bear all wrongs and outrages, rather than be moved to any debate through our own fault. But in the meanwhile, let us fight for God's truth with tooth and nail.

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  Fighting, Teeth, Nails

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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.

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  Men, Light, House

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• Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.

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  Faith, Religious, Pain

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• There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

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  Joy, Affliction, Ought

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on James”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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

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  Lying, Evil, Greed

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• Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

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  Suffering, Lord, Inevitable

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• Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

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  Rotten, Misery, Pity

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• Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

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  Hatred, Desire, Common

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.32, Baker Books

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• Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.

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  Christian, Philosophy, Mind

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• The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust.

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  Christian, Prayer, Keys

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• The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.

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  Bible, Christian, Kings

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• The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory

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  Mean, Suffering, Sin

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• Integrity is the best of all protectors...we cannot be more secure than when fortified by a good conscience.

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  Integrity, Secure, Conscience

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