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The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.
John Calvin
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John Calvin
Age: 54 †
Born: 1509
Born: July 10
Died: 1564
Died: May 27
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Because I know that I am not my own master, I offer my heart as a true sacrifice to the Lord.
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Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.
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Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
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Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.
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Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.
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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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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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All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.
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You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.
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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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To be Christians under the law of grace does not mean to wander unbridled outside the law, but to be engrafted in Christ, by whose grace we are free from the curse of the law, and by whose Spirit we have the law engraved upon our hearts.
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It is certain that man never achieves a clear knowledge of himself unless he has first looked upon God's face, and then descends from contemplating him to scrutinize himself.
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Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant children, except because it so seemed good to God? A decree horrible, I confess, and yet true.
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There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.
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It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command.
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When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
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Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.
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Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.
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It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect
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