"The evil in our desires typically does not……" — John Calvin
"The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much."
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John Calvin
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237 Quotes by John Calvin
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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 Avarice Quotes
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
— William Blake
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Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
— Dante Alighieri
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Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people?…
— Tecumseh
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It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
— George Washington
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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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What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings…
— Edwin Percy Whipple
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Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your…
— Thomas Merton
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It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Want is a growing giant whom the coat of have was never large enough to cover.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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