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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.

  John Calvin

  Merit, Holiness, Christ

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.17, Baker Books

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• The majesty of God in itself goes beyond the capacity of human understanding and cannot be comprehended by it..
  We must adore its loftiness rather than investigate it, so that we do not remain overwhelmed by so great a splendor.

  John Calvin

  Understanding, Majesty, Splendor

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• When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and rely entirely on his help, we will be granted the most excellent gift of patience and through faith we may victoriously persevere to the end.

  John Calvin

  Faith, Religious, Suffering

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• But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.

  John Calvin

  Wish, Acting, Scripture

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.13, Oxford University Press

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• God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.

  John Calvin

  Faith, Order, People

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.590, Ravenio Books

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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.

  John Calvin

  Believe, Men, Idols

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• Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

  John Calvin

  Scripture, Holy, Embrace

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.213, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The name of Christ excludes all merit of our own.

  John Calvin

  Names, Merit, Christ

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• All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

  John Calvin

  Knowledge Of God, Obedience, Born

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• To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

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  Powerful, Men, Our Love

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• All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions

  John Calvin

  Art, Invention, Divine

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• Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

  John Calvin

  Doctrine, Tongue, Affair

  John Calvin (2012). “On the Christian Life (Annotated Edition)”, p.17, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.

  John Calvin

  Men, Delight, Poverty

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• Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.

  John Calvin

  Prayer, Godly, Tyrants

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• Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

  John Calvin

  Hatred, Desire, Common

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.32, Baker Books

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• It is a most blessed thing to be subject to the sovereignty of God.

  John Calvin

  Blessed, Sovereignty, Sovereignty Of God

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• For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous paths which it devises for us.

  John Calvin

  Eye, Path, Guides

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Genesis 1-23 (Annotated Edition)”, p.301, Jazzybee Verlag

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• God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.

  John Calvin

  Brightness, Christ, Ifs

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• The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.

  John Calvin

  Bible, Christian, Kings

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• The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Baby, Children

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• He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

  John Calvin

  Doe, Looks, Vain

  John Calvin (2012). “On the Christian Life (Annotated Edition)”, p.20, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The first part of a good work is the will, the second is vigorous effort in the doing of it. God is the author of both. It is, therefore, robbery from God to arrogate anything to ourselves, either in the will or the act.

  John Calvin

  Effort, Firsts, Good Work

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.266, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

  John Calvin

  Mother, Idols, Craftsman

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• There can be no courage in men unless God supports them by his Word.

  John Calvin

  Men, Support

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Zechariah And Malachi (Annotated Edition)”, p.183, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Philosophy, Mind

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