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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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God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
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The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.
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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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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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All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.
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Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.
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It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ.
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But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
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Whensoever God's truth is defaced or when any man turns away from the pure simplicity of the Gospel, we must not in any wise spare him, but although the whole world should set itself against us, yet must we maintain the case with invincible constancy, without bending for any creature.
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We are surrounded by God’s benefits. The best use of these benefits is an unceasing expression of gratitude.
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God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.
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The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life.
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My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
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No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
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Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.
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It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility faith! (Institutio III.2.3)
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Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
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This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.'
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In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.
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