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Christian Quotes by John Calvin
- A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain…
- 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…
- Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve
- We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.
- The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
- The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust.
- The highest honor in the church is not government but service.
- There is no wisdom but that which is focused on the fear of God.
- Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian…
- The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow…
- Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
- My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
- Those little children have not yet any understanding to desire His blessing; but when they are presented to Him, He gently and kindly receives them,…
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- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
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- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila
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- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon
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