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Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve
John Calvin
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John Calvin
Age: 54 †
Born: 1509
Born: July 10
Died: 1564
Died: May 27
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Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
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We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.
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It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command.
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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.
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Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws as though God had not been wise enough.
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Faith is the evidence of divine adoption.
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Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
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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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God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.
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I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.
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The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.
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Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.
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This is what entertainment is all about- idiots, explosives and falling anvils.
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There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.
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A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
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Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.
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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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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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The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.
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