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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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• 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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• Pagan philosophers set up reason as the sole guide of life, of wisdom and conduct; but Christian philosophy demands of us that we surrender our reason to the Holy Spirit; and this means that we no longer live for ourselves, but that Christ lives and reigns within us (Rom 12:1; Eph 4:23; Gal 2:20).

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  Christian, Philosophy, Mean

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.27, Baker Books

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• On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.

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  Hands, Giving, Satisfaction

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• I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.

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  Memories, Lord, Reverence

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.

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  School, Blessing, Way

  John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.

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  Men, Common, Busy

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• When we know God to be our Father, should we not desire that he be known as such by all? And if we do not have this passion, that all creatures do him homage, is it not a sign that his glory means little to us?

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  Father, Passion, Mean

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• Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.

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  Guilt, Unjust, Heretic

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• Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

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  Fear, Sailing, Mind

  John Calvin (2007). “Letters of John Calvin”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

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  Blessing, Wish, Infinite

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• But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

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  Race, Conviction, Heathen

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.49, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect

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  Boon, Lack Of Trust, Provoking

  John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.

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  Hands, Persons

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

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• Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.

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  Worship, Obedience

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• The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.

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  Sacrifice, Thankfulness, Tables

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• Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.

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  Self Esteem, Believe, Dark

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• If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.

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  Grace, Ifs

  "God the Redeemer: Institutes of The Christian Religion".

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• Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth to perpetual remembrance, the full authority which they ought to possess with the faithful is not recognized unless they are believed to have come from heaven as directly as if God had been heard giving utterance to them.

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  Giving, Heaven, Remembrance

  Mortimer J. Adler, John Calvin (1993). “Institutes of the Christian religion”

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• Faith is not a distant view, but a warm embrace of Christ.

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  Views, Christ, Embrace

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Ephesians”, p.60, Ravenio Books

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• We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.

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  Men, Covering, Looks

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• Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

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  Men, Majesty, Awareness

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.322, Oxford University Press

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• To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.

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  Heart, Men, Looks

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• In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.

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  Song, Moving, Heart

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• The Gospel acts without threats... it teaches us about the supreme goodwill of God towards us.

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  Threat, Teach, Gods Will

  Jean Calvin, John Calvin, Ford Lewis Battles (1995). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.365, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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