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The highest honor in the church is not government but service.

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John Calvin
Age: 54 †
Born: 1509
Born: July 10
Died: 1564
Died: May 27
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I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are not absolutely useless yet I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast.
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Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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Things that are seen are temporal things that are unseen are eternal.
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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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True faith is ever connected with hope.
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Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the 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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It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.
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The whole gospel is contained in Christ.
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We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.
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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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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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Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.
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If the gospel be not preached, Jesus Christ is, as it were, buried.
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We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.
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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
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Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.
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