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Them Quotes by John Calvin
- The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.
- The real proof of spiritual poverty is to patiently endure the loss of worldly goods and without any regret when it pleases our heavenly Father…
- Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.
- They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office…
- Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate…
- 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…
- 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…
- For as the aged, or those whose sight is defective, when any book, however fair, is set before them, though they perceive that there is…
- The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out…
- Some make man God's co-worker, to ratify election by His consent. Thus, according to them [Arminians], man's will is superior to God's plan. As if…
- To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.
- When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
- There can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word.
- 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…
- That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being thought…
- The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
- 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,…
- Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God,…
- 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…
- 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…
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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