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Doe Quotes by John Calvin
- Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the…
- We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish…
- 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.
- The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.
- There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
- He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.
- The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
- If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
- 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…
- As far as sacred Scripture is concerned, however much froward men try to gnaw at it, nevertheless it clearly is crammed with thoughts that could…
- No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move…
- There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.
- 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…
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