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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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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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Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.
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Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.
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We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
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It is a very important consideration that we are consecrated and dedicated to God it means that we may think, speak, meditate, or do anything only with a view to his glory.
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But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
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Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.
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But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.
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If the gospel be not preached, Jesus Christ is, as it were, buried.
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In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
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For, since the fall of Adam had brought disgrace upon all his posterity, God restores those, whom He separates as His own, so that their condition may be better than that of all other nations. At the same time it must be remarked, that this grace of renewal is effaced in many who have afterwards profaned it
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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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If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.
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If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.
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The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.
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God is not limited to any person, but calls freely whomsoever He pleases, and bestows on those who are called whatever rewards He thinks fit.
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Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved.
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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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After 50 years, is it not clear that God has raised up new illnesses connected with fornication? From where do these things come if not from the hand of God? [In response to these diseases] The world was astounded, and people were terrified for a time, but they have not, to this day, observed the hand of God.
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