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Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.
John Calvin
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John Calvin
Age: 54 †
Born: 1509
Born: July 10
Died: 1564
Died: May 27
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The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
John Calvin
Whensoever God's truth is defaced or when any man turns away from the pure simplicity of the Gospel, we must not in any wise spare him, but although the whole world should set itself against us, yet must we maintain the case with invincible constancy, without bending for any creature.
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Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.
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How can it be said that the weakness of the human will is aided so as to enable it to aspire effectually to the choice of good, when the fact is, that it must be wholly transformed and renewed?
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All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.
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men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success
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The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.
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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
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But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church. As if the eternal and inviolable truth of God depended upon the decision of men!
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The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.
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Surely in Judas' betrayal it will be no more right, because God both willed that his Son be delivered up, and delivered him up to death, to ascribe the guilt of the crime to God than to transfer the credit for redemption to Judas.
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Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.
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... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.
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We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.
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Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.
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We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.
John Calvin
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
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When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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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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In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.
John Calvin
