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

  John Calvin

  Joy, Affliction, Ought

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

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

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  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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• If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it's value? If we doubted its genuineness - we would test it by fire...and so God with us.

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  Fire, Gold, God With Us

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

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  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.

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  Evil, Fellowship, Kind

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

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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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• 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.

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  Prayer, Hands, Mind

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

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

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  Godly, Doubt, Mind

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Mind, Details, May

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

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils.

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  Fall, Anvils, Entertainment

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• A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction

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  Soul, Devil, Destruction

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.105, Oxford University Press

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

  John Calvin

  Christian, Prayer, Keys

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