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If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.
John Calvin
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John Calvin
Age: 54 †
Born: 1509
Born: July 10
Died: 1564
Died: May 27
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Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.
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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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The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the scholars but there is nobody who does not imagine that he is really better than others.
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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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Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.
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The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.
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The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.
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The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.
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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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Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits.
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There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
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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.
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Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.
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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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However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
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Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.
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the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.
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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 Human heart is an idol factory.
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If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.
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