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How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.
John Calvin
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John Calvin
Age: 54 †
Born: 1509
Born: July 10
Died: 1564
Died: May 27
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There are babies a span long in hell.
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Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws as though God had not been wise enough.
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It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.
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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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Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.
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However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
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To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.
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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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The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.
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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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Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.
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Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.
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