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All truth is God's truth.
John Calvin
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John Calvin
Age: 54 †
Born: 1509
Born: July 10
Died: 1564
Died: May 27
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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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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.
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We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.
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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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Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.
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the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.
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Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people.
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In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.
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Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.
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Each eye can have its vision separately but when we are looking at anything our vision, which in itself is divided, joins up and unites in order to give itself as a whole to the object that is put before it.
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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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It is no small honour that God for our sake has so magnificently adorned the world, in order that we may not only be spectators of this beauteous theatre, but also enjoy the multiplied abundance and variety of good things which are presented to us in it.
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For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.
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Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
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When the Bible speaks, God speaks.
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Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.
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On the contrary, therefore, Christ declares that the doctrine of the Gospel, though it is preached to all without exception, cannot be embraced by all, but that a new understanding and a new perception are requisite and, therefore, that faith does not depend on the will of men, but that it is God who gives it.
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Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.
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God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.
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I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
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