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The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
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 glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.
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No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!
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Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.
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When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve
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A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction
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They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission - as if God sat in a watchtower awaiting chance events , and his judgments thus depended upon human will.
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There is no golden mean between these two extremes either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love.
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Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.
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My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
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But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.
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No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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Surely in Judas' betrayal it will be no more right, because God both willed that his Son be delivered up, and delivered him up to death, to ascribe the guilt of the crime to God than to transfer the credit for redemption to Judas.
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Warned by such evidences of their spiritual illness, believers profit by their humiliations. Robbed of their foolish confidence in the flesh, they take refuge in the grace of God. And when they have done so, they experience the nearness of the divine protection which is to them a strong fortress (Ps 30:6-7).
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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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True faith is ever connected with hope.
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The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life!
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If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.
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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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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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