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the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.
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 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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They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.
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God is not limited to any person, but calls freely whomsoever He pleases, and bestows on those who are called whatever rewards He thinks fit.
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If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.
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Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.
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Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.
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The highest honor in the church is not government but service.
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Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy.
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I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.
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All things being at God's disposal, and the decision of salvation or death belonging to him, he orders all things by his counsel and decree in such a manner, that some men are born devoted from the womb to certain death, that his name may be glorified in their destruction.
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There can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word.
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Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?
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Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.
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We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that it consists in the remission of sins and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness.
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A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.
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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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How do we know that God has elected us before the creation of the world? By believing in Jesus Christ.
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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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To have a proper understanding of the gospel, we must recognise that we need to lean entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ and his mercy alone as our only hope of salvation. ... No one can be justified by the law justification is through faith alone.
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Many people have accused me of such ferocious cruelty that (they allege) I would like to kill again the man I have destroyed. Not only am I indifferent to their comments, but I rejoice in the fact that they spit in my face.
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