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• We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.

  John Calvin

  Charity, Faults, Insult

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.33, Baker Books

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• If God does nothing random, there must always be something to learn.

  John Calvin

  Doe, Ifs

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• We are surrounded by God’s benefits. The best use of these benefits is an unceasing expression of gratitude.

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  Gratitude, Expression, Use

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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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  Humble, Men, Sight

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Matthew”, p.360, Ravenio Books

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• Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.

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  Spiritual, Doe, Fruit

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 1 (Annotated Edition)”, p.39, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.

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  Son, Anchors, Heaven

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• Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.

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  Humility, Pride, Men

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai (Annotated Edition)”, p.48, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.

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  Knowing, Knowing God, Knows

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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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  Heart, Design, Forgiving

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Zechariah And Malachi (Annotated Edition)”, p.194, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

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  Suffering, Chance, Inevitable

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• Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

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  Grace, Liberty, Doe

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.134, Lulu.com

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• The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith

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  Fire, Quality, Affliction

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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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  Flesh, Spirit, Repentance

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• There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

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  Confidence, Block, Christian Inspirational

  Jean Calvin, John Calvin, David Wishart Torrance, A. W. Morrison (1996). “A Harmony of the Gospels, Matthew, Mark and Luke”, p.245, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life!

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  Peaceful, Doe, Delight

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• My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Heart, Giving

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• men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success

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  Adversity, Men, Matter

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Isaiah”, p.670, Ravenio Books

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• We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

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  Christian Inspirational, Miracle, Remember

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• The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

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  Men, Giving, Grace

  John Calvin (2013). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 2: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.193, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.

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  Love, Hate, Blessing

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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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  Rotten, Misery, Pity

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• Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

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  Useless, Vain

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• We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

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  May, Infant, Eternal

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• If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.

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  Gratitude, Proud, Talent

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.33, Baker Books

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• There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

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  Soul, Attention, Body

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.90, Baker Books

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