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If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.

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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Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.
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When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God's promises have strong confirmation in Christ.
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the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.
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That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being thought superior to them, but reckons it enough that he is one of the members of Christ, and desires nothing more than that the Head alone should be exalted.
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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
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