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Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.
John Calvin
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John Calvin
Age: 54 †
Born: 1509
Born: July 10
Died: 1564
Died: May 27
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The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.
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Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.
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Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.
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God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.
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Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.
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It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility faith! (Institutio III.2.3)
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If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.
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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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We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.
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The principle exercise which the children of god have is to pray. For in this way they give true proof of their faith.
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Surely in Judas' betrayal it will be no more right, because God both willed that his Son be delivered up, and delivered him up to death, to ascribe the guilt of the crime to God than to transfer the credit for redemption to Judas.
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For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.
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Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved.
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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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Joy is a quiet gladness of heart as one contemplates the goodness of God's saving grace in Christ Jesus.
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The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.
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That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being thought superior to them, but reckons it enough that he is one of the members of Christ, and desires nothing more than that the Head alone should be exalted.
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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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Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
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