"We have been adopted as sons by the……" — John Calvin
"We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give and devote ourselves to righteousness, we not only revolt from our Creator with wicked perfidy, but we also abjure our Savior Himself."
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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 Abjure Quotes
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Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices.
— Theodor Adorno
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To abjure the notion of the truly human is to abjure the attempt to divinize the self as a replacement…
— Richard Rorty
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The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety.
— John Donne
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I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally…
— Galileo Galilei
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Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
— George Orwell
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We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth.…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely…
— Iris Murdoch
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This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to…
— William Shakespeare
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I abjure you,” Alcide said. Colonel Flood winced, and young Sid, Amanda, and Culpepper looked both astonished and impressed, as…
— Charlaine Harris
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I have been judged vehemently suspect of heresy, that is, of having held and believed that the sun in the…
— Galileo Galilei
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Repentance was never yet produced in any man's heart apart from the grace of God. As soon may you expect…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires;…
— William Shakespeare
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