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Upon Quotes by John Calvin
- No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which…
- 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…
- But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which…
- 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…
- 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.…
- If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and that it is…
- To have a proper understanding of the gospel, we must recognise that we need to lean entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ and his mercy…
- It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating…
- For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that He was…
- 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,…
- In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.
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