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John Calvin
Age: 54 †
Born: 1509
Born: July 10
Died: 1564
Died: May 27
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Noviomagus Veromanduorum
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The Human heart is an idol factory.
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If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.
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To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.
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All truth is God's truth.
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Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
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For though we very truly hear that the kingdom of God will be filled with splendor, joy, happiness and glory, yet when these things are spoken of, they remain utterly remote from our perception, and as it were, wrapped in obscurities, until that day.
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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
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God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.
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We are surrounded by God’s benefits. The best use of these benefits is an unceasing expression of gratitude.
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Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we are.
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It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.
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If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.
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To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts.
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It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.
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Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
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Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.
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Because I know that I am not my own master, I offer my heart as a true sacrifice to the Lord.
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We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
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