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• Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.

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  Fear, Sailing, Mind

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

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• It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect

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  Boon, Lack Of Trust, Provoking

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

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• There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief part of wisdom.

  John Calvin

  Christian, Christian Inspirational, Focused

  "John Calvin's Commentaries On Isaiah 17- 32". Annotated Edition,

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• Integrity is the best of all protectors...we cannot be more secure than when fortified by a good conscience.

  John Calvin

  Integrity, Secure, Conscience

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• There are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are those who, on account of some arrogated or temporal grace, are called so by us, but are not so to God.

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  Son, Grace, Accounts

  John Calvin (1982). “Concerning the Eternal Predestination of God”, p.66, James Clarke & Co.

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• Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.

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  Faith, Religious, Suffering

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• Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant children, except because it so seemed good to God? A decree horrible, I confess, and yet true.

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  Children, Fall, Together

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• For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.

  John Calvin

  School, Blessing, Way

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

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• Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

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  Past, Men, Eugenics

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• God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.

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  Order, May, Ought

  John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.287, Jazzybee Verlag

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• ... let everyone regard himself as the steward of God in all things which he possesses.

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  Stewardship, Stewards, All Things

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• However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

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  Blessing, Wish, Infinite

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• The Gospel acts without threats... it teaches us about the supreme goodwill of God towards us.

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  Threat, Teach, Gods Will

  Jean Calvin, John Calvin, Ford Lewis Battles (1995). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.365, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• If the gospel be not preached, Jesus Christ is, as it were, buried.

  John Calvin

  Jesus, Christ, Buried

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• Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.

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  Justification, True Religion, Turns

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• The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory.

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  Doubt, Theatre, World

  John Calvin (2007). “Commentaries on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews”, p.266, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• In our good works nothing is our own.

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  Stewardship, Good Work

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Ezekiel 1- 12 (Annotated Edition)”, p.331, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary to maintain the kingdom of Christ.

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  Blessed, Kingdoms, Christ

  John Calvin “John Calvin's Bible Commentaries On St. Paul's First Epistle To The Corinthians Vol.1”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In vain people busy themselves with finding any good of man's own in his will. For any mixture of the power of freewill that men strive to mingle with God's grace is nothing but a corruption of grace. It is just as if one were to dilute wine with muddy, bitter water.

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  Wine, Men, Water

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• If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.

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  Mean, Wish, Ifs

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.53, Baker Books

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• I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.

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  Memories, Lord, Reverence

  John Calvin (1845). “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.

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  Claims, Smallest, Ought

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Isaiah”, p.750, Ravenio Books

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• A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction

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  Soul, Devil, Destruction

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.105, Oxford University Press

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• Then let every one of us, being warned by this sentence of the angel, acknowledge that he as yet cleaves to first principles, or, at least, does not comprehend all those things which are necessary to be known; and that therefore progress is to be made to the very end of life: for this is our wisdom, to be learners to the end.

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  Angel, Progress, Firsts

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Zechariah And Malachi (Annotated Edition)”, p.114, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.

  John Calvin

  Believe, Care, Belief

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