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• When the Bible speaks, God speaks.

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  Speak

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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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  Jesus, Heart, Joy

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• Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness.

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  Heart, Men, Hypocrisy

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.299, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.

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  Faith, Religious, Unseen

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• Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.

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  Sin, Free Will

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• No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.

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  Men, Spirit, Revelations

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Isaiah”, p.1139, Ravenio Books

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• Faith is the evidence of divine adoption.

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  Adoption, Divine, Evidence

  John Calvin (2002). “Tracts and Treatises of John Calvin, 3 Volumes”, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.

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  Doe, Suspense, Delay

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on the Gospel of John”, p.57, Ravenio Books

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• True faith is ever connected with hope.

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  Faith, Christian, Connected

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On St. Paul's Epistle To The Hebrews (Annotated Edition)”, p.131, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.

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  Prayer, Thinking, Wish

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Gospels Vol. 1 (Annotated Edition)”, p.321, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.

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  Men, Darkness, Way

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• By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man

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  Mean, Men, Determined

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.810, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.

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  Prayer, Doubtful

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Psalms 119 - 150 (Annotated Edition)”, p.209, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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  Sometimes, Busy, Enjoy

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• Christians rejoice even while they truly sorrow - because their rejoicing is in the hope of heaven... While joy overcomes sorrow, it does not put an end to it.

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  Christian, Joy, Heaven

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• A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.

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  Men, Sight, Justified

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.318, Lulu.com

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• Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all

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  Men, Grace, Special

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.235, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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  Men, Giving, Understanding

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Gospel Of John Vol. 1 (Annotated Edition)”, p.231, Jazzybee Verlag

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• God is not limited to any person, but calls freely whomsoever He pleases, and bestows on those who are called whatever rewards He thinks fit.

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  Thinking, Rewards, Fit

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Matthew”, p.403, Ravenio Books

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• For it was not after we were reconciled to him by the blood of his Son that he began to love us, but he loved us before the foundation of the world, that with his only begotten Son we too might be sons of God before we were anything at all.

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  Son, Blood, Foundation

  "Institutes of the Christian Religion".

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• Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.

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  Prayer, Memories, Hours In The Day

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Daniel 1- 6 (Annotated Edition)”, p.342, Jazzybee Verlag

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• For we are not all equally afflicted with the same disease or all in need of the same severe cure. This is the reason why we see different persons disciplined with different crosses. The heavenly Physician takes care of the well-being of all his patients; he gives some a milder medicine and purifies others by more shocking treatments, but he omits no one; for the whole world, without exception, is ill (Deut 32:15).

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  Medicine, Giving, Physicians

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.55, Baker Books

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• Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.

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  Heart, Dominion, Riches

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.389, Ravenio Books

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• Faith alone saves, but the faith that saves is not alone.

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  Not Alone

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• Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.

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  Christian, Fall, Taste

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