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Things that are seen are temporal things that are unseen are eternal.
John Calvin
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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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Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.
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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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Unless we ardently and prayerfully devote ourselves to Christ's righteousness we do not only faithlessly revolt from our Creator, but we also abjure him as our Savior.
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Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
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Sometimes it seems things go by too quickly. We are so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we are.
John Calvin
Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?
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Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
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It is a very important consideration that we are consecrated and dedicated to God it means that we may think, speak, meditate, or do anything only with a view to his glory.
John Calvin
If the gospel be not preached, Jesus Christ is, as it were, buried.
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If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
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Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
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The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.
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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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You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.
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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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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.
John Calvin
Faith is the evidence of divine adoption.
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If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.
John Calvin
Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.
John Calvin
We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.
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