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Church Quotes by John Calvin
- Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
- Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not…
- The highest honor in the church is not government but service.
- But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church.…
- Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
- 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…
- The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
- The very word baptize, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient church.
- It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will…
- 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…
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