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• We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.

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  Meditation, Joy, Suffering

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• You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

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  Order, Joy, Suffering

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• The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.

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  Memories, Heart, Soul

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• A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.

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  Perfect, Found, Unbelievers

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• Let us be peaceable as near as we can: let us relent of our own right: let us not strive for these worldly goods, honour and reputation: let us bear all wrongs and outrages, rather than be moved to any debate through our own fault. But in the meanwhile, let us fight for God's truth with tooth and nail.

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  Fighting, Teeth, Nails

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• The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory

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  Mean, Suffering, Sin

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• Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

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  Science, Religion, Christ

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• Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.

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  Men, Justice, Charity

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.336, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

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  Men, Light, House

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• The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.

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  Practice, Church, Ancient

  "Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 2: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French".

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• So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.

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  Evil, Use, Instruments

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• The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.

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  Spirit, Christ, Holy Spirit

  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.485, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

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  Joy, Affliction, Ought

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on James”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God does not want us to be overwhelmed in everlasting destruction, for He has ordained His Son to be the salvation of the world.

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  Son, Despair, Doe

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• Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

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  Perseverance, Prayer, Results

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.803, Jazzybee Verlag

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• You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.

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  Powerful, Blessing, Suggestions

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.35, Baker Books

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• No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; nay, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone.

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  Moving, Men, Surveys

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• There are babies a span long in hell.

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  Baby, Long, Hell

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• Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.

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  Easter, School, Progress

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• Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.

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  Feet, Medicine, Departure

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• The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust.

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  Christian, Prayer, Keys

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• We say, then, that Scripture clearly proves this much, that God by his eternal and immutable counsel determined once for all those whom it was his pleasure one day to admit to salvation, and those whom, on the other hand, it was his pleasure to doom to destruction. We maintain that this counsel, as regards the elect, is founded on his free mercy, without any respect to human worth, while those whom he dooms to destruction are excluded from access to life by a just and blameless, but at the same time incomprehensible judgment

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  Hands, One Day, Scripture

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.814, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

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  Suffering, Lord, Inevitable

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• Concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, we must also be aware that he is our Advocate, and that without him we cannot approach God.

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  Jesus, Christ, Lord

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

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• All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.

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  Men, Common, Busy

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