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• The whole comes to this, that Christ, when he produces faith in us by the agency of his Spirit, at the same time ingrafts us into his body, that we may become partakers of all spiritual blessings.

  John Calvin

  Spiritual, Blessing, Agency

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• The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

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  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Constancy

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On St. Paul's Epistle To The Hebrews (Annotated Edition)”, p.75, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.

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  Prayer, Mercy

  John Calvin (2012). “Of Prayer (Annotated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

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• It is permissible to use wine not only for necessity, but also to make us merry...... [it must be moderate] lest men forget themselves, drown their senses,.....in making merry [those who enjoy wine] feel a livelier gratitude to God.

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  Gratitude, Wine, Men

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• Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation.

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  Pride, Men, Vanity

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.24, Lulu.com

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  Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence toward us.

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  Angel, Divine, Solicitude

  Jean Calvin, John Allen (1844). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.155

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• Scripture points out this difference between believers and unbelievers; the latter, as old slaves of their incurable perversity, cannot endure the rod; but the former, like children of noble birth, profit by repentance and correction.

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  Children, Differences, Noble

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.57, Baker Books

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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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  Mean, Guilt, Innocence

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• We must observe that the knowledge of God which we are invited to cultivate is not that which, resting satisfied with empty speculation, only flutters in the brain, but a knowledge which will prove substantial and fruitful whenever it is duly perceived and rooted in the heart.

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  Heart, Brain, Knowledge Of God

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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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  Faith, Ignorance, Humility

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• There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

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  God, Doe, Glisten

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• Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.

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  Motivational, Accomplishment, Despair

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.23, Baker Books

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• All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.

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  Grief, Saint, Lord

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.47, Baker Books

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• Joy and patience are far above our strength... We must persevere in prayer that he may not permit our hearts to faint... Prayer and perseverance are necessary in our daily conflicts. The best remedy to the weariness is diligence in prayer.

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  Perseverance, Prayer, Heart

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• It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.

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  Despair, Results, Accomplish

  John Calvin (2007). “Letters of John Calvin”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Faith consists not in ignorance, but in knowledge - knowledge not of God merely...but when we recognize God as a propitious Father through the reconciliation made by Christ, and Christ as given to us for righteousness, sanctification, and life.

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  Father, Ignorance, Christ

  Mortimer J. Adler, John Calvin (1993). “Institutes of the Christian religion”

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• There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously.

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  Men, Rewards, Good Work

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• Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.

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  Ignorance, Divine Will, Divine

  John Calvin (2009). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.491, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• For earthly princes lay aside their power when they rise up against God, and are unworthy to be reckoned among the number of mankind. We ought, rather, utterly to defy them.

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  Numbers, Mankind, Ought

  John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

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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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  Order, Theatre, May

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Psalms 93 - 119 (Annotated Edition)”, p.143, Jazzybee Verlag

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• How can it be said that the weakness of the human will is aided so as to enable it to aspire effectually to the choice of good, when the fact is, that it must be wholly transformed and renewed?

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  Choices, Weakness, Facts

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• Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.

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  Fall, Majesty, Faults

  John Calvin, Jean Calvin, Thomas Boston (1996). “Sermons on Galatians”, Banner of Truth

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• Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.

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  Evil, Grace, Doe

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• In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

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  Sin, Institutes, Institute

  John Calvin (2013). “God the Redeemer: Institutes of The Christian Religion (Book 2)”, p.219, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Because I know that I am not my own master, I offer my heart as a true sacrifice to the Lord.

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  Heart, Sacrifice, Lord

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