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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.
John Calvin
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John Calvin
Age: 54 †
Born: 1509
Born: July 10
Died: 1564
Died: May 27
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Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.
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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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Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.
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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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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
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Everyone flatters himself and carries a kingdom in his breast.
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Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.
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All truth is God's truth.
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We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
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If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it's value? If we doubted its genuineness - we would test it by fire...and so God with us.
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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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We must observe that the knowledge of God which we are invited to cultivate is not that which, resting satisfied with empty speculation, only flutters in the brain, but a knowledge which will prove substantial and fruitful whenever it is duly perceived and rooted in the heart.
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The whole gospel is contained in Christ.
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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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When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
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It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.
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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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