"I consider looseness with words no less of……" — John Calvin
"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."
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John Calvin
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237 Quotes by John Calvin
John Calvin has 237 quotes on this site.
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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is…
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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make…
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However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
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Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own…
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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the…
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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
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Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
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No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is…
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Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in…
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Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
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We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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More Bowels Quotes
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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of…
— Karl Marx
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All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
— Francois Fenelon
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I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity…
— Samuel Rutherford
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No more Botox for me. Betty White's bowels move more than my face.
— Joan Rivers
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Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.
— Thomas Hobbes
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The greatest tragedy of life is that, having paid that awful price of suffering "according to the flesh that his…
— Truman G. Madsen
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If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is…
— Lin Yutang
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
— Abraham Verghese
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Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.
— Oliver Cromwell
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Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of…
— William Shakespeare
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It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The bath soothes the nerves. It promotes general perspiration, quickens the circulation, overcomes obstruction in the system, and acts beneficially…
— Ellen G. White
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