John Calvin Quotes
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If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.
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Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.
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The denial of ourselves which Christ has so diligently commanded his disciples from the beginning will at last dominate all the desires of our heart.
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While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.
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The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.
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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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Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.
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But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.
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Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.
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The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
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Indeed, a Christian ought to be disposed and prepared to keep in mind that he has to reckon with God every moment of his life.
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The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.
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While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it.
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At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God? He will not say that chance has made him different from the brutes; . . . but, substituting Nature as the architect of the universe, he suppresses the name of God.
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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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All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.
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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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Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.
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Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
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The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith
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To 'justify' means nothing else than to acquit of guilt him (her) who was accused as if his own innocence were confirmed.
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First of all, Scripture draws our attention to this, that if we want ease and tranquility in our lives, we should resign ourselves and all that we have to the will of God, and at the same time we should surrender our affections to him as our Conqueror and Overlord.
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Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.
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The Human heart is an idol factory.
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Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.
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Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?
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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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The invention of the arts, and other things which serve the common use and convenience of life, is a gift of God by no means to be despised, and a faculty worthy of commendation.
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For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?
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Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.
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