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This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.'

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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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Nor, in truth, is it of little importance to prevent the suspicion of any difference having arisen between us from being handed down in any way to our posterity for it is worse than absurd that parties should be found disagreeing on the very principles, after we have been compelled to make our departure from the world.
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The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.
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Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.
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Men are idol factories.
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Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?
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Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
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We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.
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All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.
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We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.
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Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.
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Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.
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When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?
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God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.
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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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Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.
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Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.
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Things that are seen are temporal things that are unseen are eternal.
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But, as sculpture and painting are gifts of God, what I insist on is, that both shall be used purely and lawfully, that gifts which the Lord has bestowed upon us, for His glory and our good, shall not be preposterously abused, nay, shall not be perverted to our destruction.
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