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Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
John Calvin
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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 a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.
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It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.
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The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.
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The whole gospel is contained in Christ.
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Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.
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Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they take refuge in the grace of God. And when they have done so, they experience the nearness of the divine protection which is to them a strong fortress (Ps 30:6-7).
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The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.
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The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.
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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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I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
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The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.
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The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.
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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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All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.
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On the contrary, therefore, Christ declares that the doctrine of the Gospel, though it is preached to all without exception, cannot be embraced by all, but that a new understanding and a new perception are requisite and, therefore, that faith does not depend on the will of men, but that it is God who gives it.
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