"You must submit to supreme suffering in order……" — John Calvin
"You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy."
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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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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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For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against…
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As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's…
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Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is…
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[Fritz Haber's] greatness lies in his scientific ideas and in the depth of his searching. The thought, the plan, and…
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I have not given it [synagogue] up. Christianity is the completion of the synagogue, for the synagogue was a promise,…
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Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish…
— Samuel Johnson
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A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
— Martin Luther
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Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom,…
— Matthieu Ricard
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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in…
— C. Northcote Parkinson
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Such is the condition of life that something is always wanting to happiness. In youth we have warm hopes, which…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an…
— Whitley Strieber
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The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of…
— Roderick Murchison
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