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• God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.

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  Faith, Order, People

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.590, Ravenio Books

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• In our good works nothing is our own.

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  Stewardship, Good Work

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Ezekiel 1- 12 (Annotated Edition)”, p.331, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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• 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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• We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.

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  Meditation, Joy, Suffering

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• The Human heart is an idol factory.

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  Heart, Idols, Factories

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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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• The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.

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  Names, Merit, Christ

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• Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.

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  Hypocrisy, Empty, Enough

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.44, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God's promises have strong confirmation in Christ.

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  Faith, Religious, Strong

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• Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.

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  Stupid, Men, Understanding

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• Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.

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  Feet, Medicine, Departure

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• The principle exercise which the children of god have is to pray. For in this way they give true proof of their faith.

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  Children, Exercise, Giving

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• Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God does not want us to be overwhelmed in everlasting destruction, for He has ordained His Son to be the salvation of the world.

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  Son, Despair, Doe

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• It is a very important consideration that we are consecrated and dedicated to God; it means that we may think, speak, meditate, or do anything only with a view to his glory.

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  Mean, Thinking, Views

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.26, Baker Books

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• Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.

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  Easter, School, Progress

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• There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief part of wisdom.

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  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Focused

  "John Calvin's Commentaries On Isaiah 17- 32". Annotated Edition,

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• The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.

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  Spirit, Christ, Holy Spirit

  John Calvin (2009). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.485, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.

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  Powerful, Blessing, Suggestions

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.35, Baker Books

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• We say, then, that Scripture clearly proves this much, that God by his eternal and immutable counsel determined once for all those whom it was his pleasure one day to admit to salvation, and those whom, on the other hand, it was his pleasure to doom to destruction. We maintain that this counsel, as regards the elect, is founded on his free mercy, without any respect to human worth, while those whom he dooms to destruction are excluded from access to life by a just and blameless, but at the same time incomprehensible judgment

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  Hands, One Day, Scripture

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.814, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There are babies a span long in hell.

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  Baby, Long, Hell

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• All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

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  Trust, Christian, Prayer

  John Calvin (2009). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.623, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The only right stewardship is that which is tested by the rule of love.

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  Stewardship, Tested

  John Calvin (2009). “The Christian Life”, p.8, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.

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  Practice, Church, Ancient

  "Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 2: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French".

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• Free will is an empty term.

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  Free Will, Empty, Term

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