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• For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous paths which it devises for us.

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  Eye, Path, Guides

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Genesis 1-23 (Annotated Edition)”, p.301, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are those who, on account of some arrogated or temporal grace, are called so by us, but are not so to God.

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  Son, Grace, Accounts

  John Calvin (1982). “Concerning the Eternal Predestination of God”, p.66, James Clarke & Co.

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• ... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.

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  Stewardship, Stewards, All Things

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• He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

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  Doe, Looks, Vain

  John Calvin (2012). “On the Christian Life (Annotated Edition)”, p.20, Jazzybee Verlag

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• No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; nay, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone.

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  Moving, Men, Surveys

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes utter excellent sayings, yet they have nothing but what is short-lived, and even mixed up with wicked and erroneous sentiments.

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  Confused, Mad, Wicked

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 2 (Annotated Edition)”, p.81, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

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  Scripture, Holy, Embrace

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.213, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.

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  Men, Justice, Charity

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.336, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, we must also be aware that he is our Advocate, and that without him we cannot approach God.

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  Jesus, Christ, Lord

  John Calvin, Jean Calvin, Thomas Boston (1996). “Sermons on Galatians”, Banner of Truth

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• When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

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  Men, Done, World

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• The whole world is a theatre for the display of the divine goodness, wisdom, justice, and power, but the Church is the orchestra, as it were—the most conspicuous part of it; and the nearer the approaches are that God makes to us, the more intimate and condescending the communication of his benefits, the more attentively are we called to consider them.

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  Communication, Justice, Church

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Psalms 119 - 150 (Annotated Edition)”, p.166, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.

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  Mean, Wish, Ifs

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.53, Baker Books

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• Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law

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  Law, Neighbor, Endeavor

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• The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.

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  Blood, Faults, Christ

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• The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.

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  Men, Heaven, Scripture

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.354, Oxford University Press

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• We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.

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  Christian, Laughing, Christian Inspirational

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• The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.

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  Angel, Exercise, Safety

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• If the gospel be not preached, Jesus Christ is, as it were, buried.

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  Jesus, Christ, Buried

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• Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, these human testimonies which exist to confirm it will not be vain if, as secondary aids to our feebleness, they follow that chief and highest testimony. But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

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  Wish, Acting, Inward

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• If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.

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  Faith, Religious, Would Be

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• The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.

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  Memories, Heart, Soul

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• Let this be our rule for goodwill and helpfulness, that whenever we are able to assist others we should behave as stewards who must someday give an account of ourselves.

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  Giving, Able, Someday

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

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• The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.

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  Prayer, Answers, Facts

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Psalms”, p.789, Ravenio Books

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• Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.

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  Secret, Creatures, Happens

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.183, Jazzybee Verlag

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• ...nothing good can proceed from our will until it be formed again, and that after it is formed again in so far as it is good, it is of God, and not of us.

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  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.265, Jazzybee Verlag

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