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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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Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
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It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command.
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Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.
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Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
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God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.
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All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.
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Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.
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The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.
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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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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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Integrity is the best of all protectors...we cannot be more secure than when fortified by a good conscience.
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Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?
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If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal.
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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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We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
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men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success
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We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
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The highest honor in the church is not government but service.
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It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.
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